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- Fear conditioning studies help us understand how fears are formed and can be reduced, which is important for treating anxiety disorders.
- The review discusses recent discoveries about fear generalization, memory processes, and the effectiveness of treatments aimed at extinguishing fear.
- It also highlights adolescence as a crucial time for intervention, suggesting that targeting this stage could change how anxiety disorders develop in the long run.
Article Abstract
Fear conditioning studies provide valuable insight into how fears are learned and extinguished. Previous work focuses on fear and extinction learning to understand and treat anxiety disorders. However, a cascade of cognitive processes that extend beyond learning may also yield therapeutic targets for anxiety disorders. Throughout this review, we will discuss recent findings of fear generalization, memory consolidation, and reconsolidation. Factors related to effectiveness, efficiency and durability of extinction-based treatments will be addressed. Moreover, adolescence may be a key developmental stage when threat-related perturbations emerge; therefore, targeting interventions during adolescence when these nascent processes are more malleable may alter the trajectory of anxiety disorders.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4333677 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40473-014-0015-0 | DOI Listing |
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