Shifting from fear to safety through deconditioning-update
Aversive memories are at the heart of psychiatric disorders such as phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here, we present a new behavioral approach in rats that robustly attenuates aversive memories. This method consists of ‘deconditioning’ animals previously trained to associate a ton...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2020-01-01
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Series: | eLife |
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/51207 |