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From Extinction Learning to Anxiety Treatment: Mind the Gap [PDF]

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2019
Laboratory models of extinction learning in animals and humans have the potential to illuminate methods for improving clinical treatment of fear-based clinical disorders.
Joseph K. Carpenter   +2 more
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EMDR therapy for PTSD after motor vehicle accidents: meta-analytic evidence for specific treatment [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015
Motor vehicle accident (MVA) victims may suffer both acute and post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD). With PTSD affecting social, interpersonal and occupational functioning, clinicians as well as the National Institute of Health are very interested in ...
Maddalena eBoccia   +7 more
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Could Dopamine Agonists Aid in Drug Development for Anorexia Nervosa? [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Nutrition, 2014
Anorexia nervosa is a severe psychiatric disorder most commonly starting during the teenage years and associated with food refusal and low body weight. Typically there is a loss of menses, intense fear of gaining weight and an often delusional quality of
Guido eFrank
doaj   +4 more sources

Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Neuroscientific Protocol [PDF]

open access: yesBrain Sciences
Background: Vaccine hesitancy (VH) is a significant public health challenge, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite extensive research on the psychological and socio-political determinants of VH, its psychophysiological mechanisms remain ...
Francesca Pisano   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Methodological implications of sample size and extinction gradient on the robustness of fear conditioning across different analytic strategies.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
Fear conditioning paradigms are critical to understanding anxiety-related disorders, but studies use an inconsistent array of methods to quantify the same underlying learning process.
Luke J Ney   +7 more
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Survival analysis of a stochastic delay single-species system in polluted environment with psychological effect and pulse toxicant input

open access: yesAdvances in Difference Equations, 2020
We propose and study a stochastic delay single-species population system in polluted environment with psychological effect and pulse toxicant input. We establish sufficient conditions for the extinction, nonpersistence in the mean, weak persistence, and ...
Xiangjun Dai   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Psychology of Existential Risk: Moral Judgments about Human Extinction [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2019
AbstractThe 21st century will likely see growing risks of human extinction, but currently, relatively small resources are invested in reducing such existential risks. Using three samples (UK general public, US general public, and UK students; total N = 2,507), we study how laypeople reason about human extinction.
Stefan Schubert   +2 more
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Psychological and neural mechanisms of experimental extinction: A selective review [PDF]

open access: yesNeurobiology of Learning and Memory, 2014
The present review examines key psychological concepts in the study of experimental extinction and implications these have for an understanding of the underlying neurobiology of extinction learning. We suggest that many of the signature characteristics of extinction learning (spontaneous recovery, renewal, reinstatement, rapid reacquisition) can be ...
Andrew R, Delamater   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Does prediction error during exposure relate to clinical outcomes in cognitive behavior therapy for social anxiety disorder? A study protocol

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
Facing your fears, or exposure therapy, is an effective psychological intervention for anxiety disorders that is often thought to work through fear extinction learning. Fear extinction learning is a type of associative learning where fear reduces through
Christopher D. Winkler   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Retrieval-Extinction and Relapse Prevention: Rewriting Maladaptive Drug Memories?

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020
Addicted individuals are highly susceptible to relapse when exposed to drug-associated conditioned stimuli (CSs; “drug cues”) even after extensive periods of abstinence.
Eloise J. Kuijer   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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