Behavioral disturbances related to emotional regulation, reward processing, cognition, sleep-
wake regulation and activity/movement represent core symptoms of most common mental …

Comorbidity is a characteristic hallmark of anxiety disorders. Presence of comorbid anxiety
and depression is challenging to the diagnosis and treatment. Conventional and …

Anxiety disorders are characterized by cognitive dysfunctions which contribute to the
patient's profound disabilities. The threat of shock paradigm represents a validated …

Rationale The administration of glucocorticoids (GC) as an adjunct to exposure represents a
promising strategy to improve one-session exposure outcome in anxiety disorders. It …

Abstract Background and Objectives It is well documented that the fear of specific stimuli and
situations can be acquired through the social observation of the actions of another person. In …

Low self-efficacy for threatening stimuli and situations has been proposed as an important
etiological factor in the development and maintenance of specific phobias. The present …

Extinction training creates a second inhibitory memory trace and effectively reduces
conditioned responding. However, acute stress inhibits the retrieval of this extinction …

Fear extinction is a topic of central importance in translational neuroscience. It integrates
knowledge from various disciplines, including clinical psychology, experimental psychology …