A conditioned stimulus (CS) associated with a fearsome unconditioned stimulus (US)
generates learned fear. Acquired fear is at the root of a variety of disorders, among which …

A great deal is now known about the mechanisms of conditioned fear acquisition and
expression. More recently, the mechanisms of inhibition of conditioned fear have become …

Recent work on the extinction of fear-motivated learning places emphasis on its putative
circuitry and on its modulation. Extinction is the learned inhibition of retrieval of previously …

Fear memory is the best-studied form of memory. It was thoroughly investigated in the past
60 years mostly using two classical conditioning procedures (contextual fear conditioning …

Fear responses can be eliminated through extinction, a procedure involving the presentation
of fear-eliciting stimuli without aversive outcomes. Extinction is believed to be mediated by …

Aconservative estimate indicates that almost 30% of the US population will be afflicted with
an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives, and preliminary data suggest that this risk is …

Just as fear can be learned, it can also be inhibited. The most common way of reducing
learned fear is through extinction, where the conditioned stimulus (CS) previously paired …

Evidence suggests that extinction, the suppression of a learned response to a Pavlovian
signal that is produced by exposure to the signal alone after conditioning, is a consequence …

Research on unconscious fear responses has recently been translated into experimental
paradigms for reducing fear that bypass conscious awareness of the phobic stimulus and …

In four experiments using albino rats in an ABA fear renewal paradigm, we studied
conditioned fear in the A test context following extinction in Context B. Conditioned …