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Fear Inhibition

Fear Inhibition is a neurobiological construct within the study of fear circuits that refers to the regulatory process by which fear responses are suppressed or attenuated, typically through the engagement of inhibitory neural mechanisms in regions such as the prefrontal cortex modulating amygdala activity.

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A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage

Ralph Adolphs, Frédéric Gosselin, Tony W. Buchanan et al. · Nature · 2005 · 1.3K citations

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Amygdala circuitry mediating reversible and bidirectional control of anxiety

Kay M. Tye, Rohit Prakash, Sung‐Yon Kim et al. · Nature · 2011 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Dissociable Roles of Prelimbic and Infralimbic Cortices, Ventral Hippocampus, and Basolateral Amygdala in the Expression and Extinction of Conditioned Fear

Demetrio Sierra‐Mercado, Nancy Padilla-Coreano, Gregory J. Quirk · Neuropsychopharmacology · 2010 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Evoked Axonal Oxytocin Release in the Central Amygdala Attenuates Fear Response

Hilda Knobloch, Alexandre Charlet, Lena C. Hoffmann et al. · Neuron · 2012 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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Neural organization of the defensive behavior system responsible for fear

Michael S. Fanselow · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 1994 · 1K citations · Full text

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    James L. McGaugh

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    21 publications · 1.9K citations

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    Stephen Maren

    University of Michigan, United States

    23 publications · 2.9K citations

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    Joseph E. LeDoux

    New York University, United States

    23 publications · 6K citations

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  4. GJ
    Gregory J. Quirk

    University of Puerto Rico System, Puerto Rico

    20 publications · 6.8K citations

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    Tanja Jovanović

    Emory University, United States

    22 publications · 2.2K citations

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  1. Emory University

    Atlanta, United States

    33 h-index

    162 publications

    17.3K citations

  2. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    33 h-index

    137 publications

    20.7K citations

  3. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    31 h-index

    114 publications

    6.9K citations

  4. Universidade de São Paulo

    São Paulo, Brazil

    29 h-index

    134 publications

    5.3K citations

  5. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    27 h-index

    81 publications

    7.8K citations

  6. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    25 h-index

    73 publications

    8.1K citations

  7. New York University

    New York, United States

    24 h-index

    73 publications

    14.4K citations

  8. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    24 h-index

    58 publications

    10.3K citations

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  1. Behavioral Neuroscience

    75 publications · 7.9K citations

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  2. Biological Psychiatry

    55 publications · 7.3K citations

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  3. Neuropsychopharmacology

    70 publications · 6.4K citations

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  4. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

    NLM · 105 publications · 5.6K citations

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  5. Behavioural Brain Research

    114 publications · 5K citations

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