[HTML][HTML] A review on mental imagery in fear conditioning research 100 years since the 'Little Albert'study

G Mertens, AM Krypotos, IM Engelhard - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Since the seminal 'Little Albert'study by Watson and Rayner (1920), fear
conditioning has become one of the most commonly used paradigms for studying the …

Renewal in human fear conditioning: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Y Wang, S Olsson, OV Lipp, LJ Ney - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2024 - Elsevier
Renewal is a 'return of fear'manipulation in human fear conditioning to investigate learning
processes underlying anxiety and trauma. Even though renewal paradigms are widely used …

Hair endocannabinoids predict physiological fear conditioning and salivary endocannabinoids predict subjective stress reactivity in humans

LJ Ney, J Cooper, GN Lam, K Moffitt, DS Nichols… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
On the basis of substantial preclinical evidence, the endogenous cannabinoid system has
been proposed to be closely involved in stress reactivity and extinction of fear. Existing …

COVID-19-related distress is associated with analogue PTSD symptoms after exposure to an analogue stressor

E Friesen, T Michael, SK Schäfer… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background: The COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020 was associated with an immediate
increase in mental health problems in a significant percentage of the general population …

Combining the trauma film and fear conditioning paradigms: A theoretical review and meta-analysis with relevance to PTSD

LJ Ney, M Schenker, OV Lipp - Behaviour research and therapy, 2022 - Elsevier
A growing literature has sought to combine fear conditioning paradigms with the trauma film
paradigm to study the associative learning properties of intrusive re-experiencing in PTSD …

No differences in return of pain-related fear after extinction and counterconditioning.

R Gatzounis, S De Bruyn, L Van de Velde, A Meulders - Emotion, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Extinction-based protocols such as exposure-in-vivo successfully reduce pain-related fear in
chronic pain conditions, but return of fear and clinical relapse often occur …

[HTML][HTML] Threat memory devaluation by a dual-task intervention: Testing return of fear and intrusive memory over 48 hours

E Landkroon, E Salemink, IM Engelhard - Journal of Behavior Therapy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background and objectives In dual-tasking, individuals recall a threat-related memory while
performing a demanding dual-task. This is a fruitful approach to reduce the unpleasantness …

Imagery rescripting versus extinction: distinct and combined effects on expectancy and revaluation learning

M Woelk, J Krans, F Raes, B Vervliet… - Clinical …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Anxiety disorders are effectively treated with exposure therapy, but relapse remains high.
Fear may reinstate after reoccurrence of the negative event because the expectancy of the …

[HTML][HTML] Does an unconditioned stimulus memory devaluation procedure decrease disgust memories and conditioned disgust? Results of two laboratory studies

G Mertens, EAM van Dis, AM Krypotos… - Journal of Anxiety …, 2021 - Elsevier
Research has demonstrated that disgust can be installed through classical conditioning by
pairing neutral conditioned stimuli (CSs) with disgusting unconditioned stimuli (USs) …

Taxing working memory to modulate mental imagery of the 9/11 terrorist attacks following media exposure during childhood: a pilot study in young adult UK residents

LA Rackham, A Lau-Zhu - Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Media trauma in civilians is linked to intrusive
imagery-based memory symptoms. We investigated whether mental imagery of the 9/11 …