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Gregory A Fonzo1, Kevin S LaBar2
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX, USA.
Science Advances
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Transcranial ultrasound stimulation applied to the human amygdala selectively impacts the initial phases of both threat learning and its subsequent extinction.

