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SUBMITTER: Gonzalez-Escamilla G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6162240 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gonzalez-Escamilla Gabriel G Chirumamilla Venkata C VC Meyer Benjamin B Bonertz Tamara T von Grotthus Sarah S Vogt Johannes J Stroh Albrecht A Horstmann Johann-Philipp JP Tüscher Oliver O Kalisch Raffael R Muthuraman Muthuraman M Groppa Sergiu S
Scientific reports 20180928 1
Threat detection is essential for protecting individuals from adverse situations, in which a network of amygdala, limbic regions and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) regions are involved in fear processing. Excitability regulation in the dmPFC might be crucial for fear processing, while abnormal patterns could lead to mental illness. Notwithstanding, non-invasive paradigms to measure excitability regulation during fear processing in humans are missing. To address this challenge we adapted a ...[more]