Avoidant symptoms in PTSD predict fear circuit activation during multimodal fear extinction

Convergent evidence suggests that individuals with PTSD exhibit exaggerated avoidance behaviors as well as abnormalities in Pavlonian fear conditioning. However, the link between the two features of this disorder is not well understood. In order to probe the brain basis of aberrant extinction learni...

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Main Authors: Rebecca Kaufman Sripada, Sarah N Garfinkel, Israel eLiberzon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00672/full