Attenuating fearful memories: Effect of cued extinction on intrusions

Emotion

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1143-1154

  Marks, Elizabeth H ^a   Zoellner, Lori A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear; Intrusions; Memory; PTSD; Reconsolidation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY INDEX; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISGUST; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EMOTION; EMOTION REGULATION QUESTIONNAIRE; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNICITY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; POST FILM QUESTIONNAIRE; POSTTRAUMATIC DIAGNOSTIC SCALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; REINFORCEMENT; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBJECTIVE UNITS OF DISTRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS QUESTIONNAIRE; ADOLESCENT; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONDITIONING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; MALE; MEMORY; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922587082     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0037862     Document Type: Article

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