Examining Differences in Fear Learning in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder With Pupillometry, Startle Electromyography and Skin Conductance Responses

Examining Differences in Fear Learning in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder With Pupillometry, Startle Electromyography and Skin Conductance Responses

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by recurrent, persistent thoughts and repetitive behaviors causing stress and anxiety. In the associative learning model of OCD, mechanisms of fear extinction are supposed to partly underlie symptom development, maintenance and treatment of OCD, p...

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Main Authors: Dorothee Pöhlchen, Marthe Priouret, Miriam S. Kraft, Florian P. Binder, Deniz A. Gürsel, Götz Berberich, BeCOME working group, Kathrin Koch, Victor I. Spoormaker, E. B. Binder, T. M. Brückl, M. Czisch, A. Erhardt, N. C. Grandi, S. Lucae, P. Sämann, A. Tontsch, I.A. von Muecke-Heim, J. Ziebula
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
Subjects:
obsessive compulsive disorder
anxiety
inhibitory learning
extinction
fear conditioning
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.730742/full

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