Fear conditioning, synaptic plasticity and the amygdala: implications for posttraumatic stress disorder

AL Mahan, KJ Ressler - Trends in neurosciences, 2012 - cell.com
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after a
traumatic experience such as domestic violence, natural disasters or combat-related trauma …

A review on human reinstatement studies: an overview and methodological challenges

J Haaker, A Golkar, D Hermans… - Learning & …, 2014 - learnmem.cshlp.org
In human research, studies of return of fear (ROF) phenomena, and reinstatement in
particular, began only a decade ago and recently are more widely used, eg, as outcome …

Altered resting-state functional connectivity of basolateral and centromedial amygdala complexes in posttraumatic stress disorder

VM Brown, KS LaBar, CC Haswell, AL Gold… - …, 2014 - nature.com
The amygdala is a major structure that orchestrates defensive reactions to environmental
threats and is implicated in hypervigilance and symptoms of heightened arousal in …

Brain sites involved in fear memory reconsolidation and extinction of rodents

E Baldi, C Bucherelli - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Fear memory is a motivational system essential for organisms survival having a central role
in organization of defensive behaviors to threat. In the last years there has been a growing …

Common neurocircuitry mediating drug and fear relapse in preclinical models

TD Goode, S Maren - Psychopharmacology, 2019 - Springer
Background Comorbidity of anxiety disorders, stressor-and trauma-related disorders, and
substance use disorders is extremely common. Moreover, therapies that reduce pathological …

Long-term expression of human contextual fear and extinction memories involves amygdala, hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: a reinstatement study …

TB Lonsdorf, J Haaker, R Kalisch - Social cognitive and affective …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Human context conditioning studies have focused on acquisition and extinction. Subsequent
long-term changes in fear behaviors not only depend on associative learning processes …

Amount of fear extinction changes its underlying mechanisms

B An, J Kim, K Park, S Lee, S Song, S Choi - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
There has been a longstanding debate on whether original fear memory is inhibited or
erased after extinction. One possibility that reconciles this uncertainty is that the inhibition …

IL-17A promotes the neuroinflammation and cognitive function in sevoflurane anesthetized aged rats via activation of NF-κB signaling pathway

Z Yang, C Yuan - BMC anesthesiology, 2018 - Springer
Background To investigate the role of IL-17A in the neuroinflammation and cognitive
function of aged rats anaesthetized with sevoflurane through NF-κB pathway. Method The …

Mechanisms to medicines: elucidating neural and molecular substrates of fear extinction to identify novel treatments for anxiety disorders

O Bukalo, CR Pinard, A Holmes - British journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The burden of anxiety disorders is growing, but the efficacy of available anxiolytic treatments
remains inadequate. Cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders focuses on …

The role of the basolateral amygdala and infralimbic cortex in (re) learning extinction

NW Lingawi, V Laurent, RF Westbrook… - Psychopharmacology, 2019 - Springer
The basolateral amygdala complex (BLA) and infralimbic region of the prefrontal cortex (IL)
play distinct roles in the extinction of Pavlovian conditioned fear in laboratory rodents. In the …