A Preliminary Test of Novelty-Facilitated Extinction in Individuals With Pathological Anxiety

A Preliminary Test of Novelty-Facilitated Extinction in Individuals With Pathological Anxiety

Studies with rodents and healthy humans suggest that replacing the expected threat with a novel outcome improves extinction and reduces the return of conditioned fear more effectively than threat omission alone. Because of the potential clinical implications of this finding for exposure-based anxiet...

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Main Authors: Shari A. Steinman, Joseph E. Dunsmoor, Zhamilya Gazman, Yael Stovezky, Olivia Pascucci, Justin Pomerenke, Elizabeth A. Phelps, Abby Fyer, H. Blair Simpson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjects:
extinction
anxiety
obsessive-compulsive disorder
cognition
skin conductance
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.873489/full

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