Training discrimination diminishes maladaptive avoidance of innocuous stimuli in a fear conditioning paradigm

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorder worldwide. Although anxiety disorders differ in the nature of feared objects or situations, they share a common mechanism by which fear generalizes to related but innocuous objects, eliciting avoidance of objects and situations that pose no objec...

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Main Authors: Lommen, M, Duta, M, Vanbrabant, K, de Jong, R, Juechems, K, Ehlers, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2017