State-of-the-art and future directions for extinction as a translational model for fear and anxiety

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 1742, 2018, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Exposure therapy; Fear and anxiety; Fear extinction; Translational model

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ERROR CORRECTION; LEARNING; NEUROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTION;

ANIMAL; ANXIETY DISORDER; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEAR; HUMAN; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; MICE; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85040937663     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0025     Document Type: Review

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