A behavioural neuroscience perspective on the aetiology and treatment of anxiety disorders

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 24-36

  Kindt, Merel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety and related disorders; Associative fear learning; Associative fear memory; Behavioural neuroscience; Disrupting reconsolidation; Fear conditioning; Fear extinction; Fear generalization; Fear persistence; Novel treatment

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN; PROPRANOLOL; STRESS HORMONE;

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONDITIONING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEAR; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES;

EID: 84910086411     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2014.08.012     Document Type: Article

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