Effects of approach-avoidance training on the extinction and return of fear responses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Krypotos, Angelos Miltiadis ^a   Arnaudova, Inna ^a   Effting, Marieke ^a   Kindt, Merel ^a   Beckers, Tom ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; REINFORCEMENT; STARTLE REFLEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; MALE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84941784349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131581     Document Type: Article

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