Postural control is a motor skill that allows individuals to interact with their environment.
Indeed, in all species, development of postural control is a prerequisite for acquiring further …

Encoding and retrieval difficulties, and avoidance of both traumatic and positive memories,
are associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. However, most PTSD …

Laboratory procedures have been used for decades as analogues for clinical processes
with the goal of improving our understanding of psychological treatments for emotional …

Exposure therapy is the recommended treatment for anxiety disorders, but many anxious
individuals are unwilling to expose themselves to feared situations. Episodic simulation of …

Abstract Background and Objectives: Forgiveness has been found to be a useful
intervention for past trauma across a variety of situations. However, this has yet to be …

Besides fight and flight responses, animals and humans may respond to threat with freezing,
a response characterized by bradycardia and physical immobility. Risk assessment is …

Background and objectives It is assumed that fear responses can be altered by changing the
contingency between a conditioned stimulus (CS) and an unconditioned stimulus (US), or by …

Different levels of threat imminence elicit distinct computational strategies reflecting how the
organism interacts with its environment in order to guarantee survival. Thereby …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatments primarily address traumatic memories,
despite PTSD's association with both traumatic and positive memory difficulties. Addressing …

Freezing is a defensive response to acute stress that is associated with coping and
alterations in attentional processing. However, it remains unclear whether individuals in high …