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SUBMITTER: Robinson OJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3593853 | biostudies-other | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Robinson Oliver J OJ Overstreet Cassie C Charney Danielle R DR Vytal Katherine K Grillon Christian C
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130211 10
From job interviews to the heat of battle, it is evident that people think and learn differently when stressed. In fact, learning under stress may have long-term consequences; stress facilitates aversive conditioning and associations learned during extreme stress may result in debilitating emotional responses in posttraumatic stress disorder. The mechanisms underpinning such stress-related associations, however, are unknown. Computational neuroscience has successfully characterized several mecha ...[more]