A goal of fear and anxiety research is to understand how to treat the potentially devastating effects of anxiety disorders in humans. Much of this research utilizes classical fear …
Laboratory models of extinction learning in animals and humans have the potential to illuminate methods for improving clinical treatment of fear-based clinical disorders. However …
Pavlovian conditioning paradigms have become important model systems for understanding the neuroscience of behavior. In particular, studies of the extinction of Pavlovian fear …
M Barad - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2005 - Elsevier
Fear extinction, the reduction of fear by repeated exposure to the object of fear, is a crucial paradigm of inhibitory learning and the acknowledged preclinical model for behavior …
MB VanElzakker, MK Dahlgren, FC Davis… - Neurobiology of learning …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Nearly 100 years ago, Ivan Pavlov demonstrated that dogs could learn to use a neutral cue to predict a biologically relevant event: after repeated predictive pairings …
KK Hauner, S Mineka, JL Voss… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
A single session of exposure therapy can eliminate recalcitrant and disabling fear of phobogenic objects or situations. We studied neural mechanisms of this remarkable …
Fear conditioning is one of the most widely used animal models for studying the neurobiological basis of fear and anxiety states. Conditioned inhibition of fear (or learned …
Fear extinction is the decrease in conditioned fear responses that normally occurs when a conditioned stimulus (CS) is repeatedly presented in the absence of the aversive …
Understanding how fears are acquired is an important step in translating basic research to the treatment of fear-related disorders. However, understanding how learned fears are …