Indirect Targeting of Subsuperficial Brain Structures With Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reveals a Promising Way Forward in the Treatment of Fear.

Zachary T Pennington, Michael S Fanselow

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Article in Biological psychiatry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

Enhancing emotion regulation: investigating the efficacy of transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation at PC6 in reducing fear of heights.Frontiers in psychology · 2024
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Contemporary Approaches Toward Neuromodulation of Fear Extinction and Its Underlying Neural Circuits.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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Prefrontal Cortex Stimulation Enhances Fear Extinction Memory in Humans.2018

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zachary T PenningtonDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Staglin Center for Brain and Behavioral Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York. Electronic address: zachary.pennington@mssm.edu.

Michael S FanselowDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Staglin Center for Brain and Behavioral Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

Funding

Projection-specific contributions of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex to fear extinction and fear generalizationF31MH108257 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI PENNINGTON, ZACHARY THOMAS · 2015 to 2016

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NIMH NIH HHS F31 MH108257

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BrainTranscranial Magnetic StimulationFearHumansMemoryPrefrontal Cortex

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PMID31178062

DOI10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.05.003

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