Fear extinction and relapse: State of the art

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 215-248

  Vervliet, Bram ^a   Craske, Michelle G ^b   Hermans, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety treatment; learning theory; memory retrieval; Pavlovian conditioning; relapse prevention; translational research

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSERINE;

AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONDITIONING; DRUG EFFICACY; FEAR; HUMAN; INHIBITION KINETICS; LABORATORY TEST; LEARNING THEORY; LONG TERM CARE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; RECURRENCE;

EID: 84875892633     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: 15485951     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050212-185542     Document Type: Review

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