Counterconditioning refers both to the technique and putative process by which behavior is modified through a new association with a stimulus of an opposite valence. Similar to …
KE Ojala, DR Bach - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Threat conditioning is a laboratory model of associative learning across species that is often used in research on the etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders. At least 10 different …
S Dymond - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Avoidance is generally adaptive, yet excessive rates of avoidance can become maladaptive and lead to functional impairment and psychopathology. Laboratory-based treatment …
Background Comorbidity of anxiety disorders, stressor-and trauma-related disorders, and substance use disorders is extremely common. Moreover, therapies that reduce pathological …
Exposure therapy consists of exposing patients to their fears and thereby diminishing their harm expectancies (ie, extinction or expectancy learning). Although effective for many …
Previous laboratory work has shown that induction of positive mood prior to fear extinction decreases the negative valence of the conditional stimulus (CS) and reduces reinstatement …
M Toumbelekis, BJ Liddell, RA Bryant - Translational psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Previous studies have shown that activating the attachment system attenuates fear learning. This study aimed to explore whether attachment priming can also impact on fear extinction …
Exposure-based treatment for anxiety disorders is effective for many patients, but relapse is not uncommon. One predictor of the return of fear is the negative valence of fear-relevant …
Introduction: The Flash technique is a novel intervention aimed at rapidly decreasing the subjective disturbance of an aversive memory, thereby serving as a potential way of treating …