Training discrimination diminishes maladaptive avoidance of innocuous stimuli in a fear conditioning paradigm.

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorder worldwide. Although anxiety disorders differ in the nature of feared objects or situations, they share a common mechanism by which fear generalizes to related but innocuous objects, eliciting avoidance of objects and situations that pose no objec...

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Main Authors: Miriam J J Lommen, Mihaela Duta, Koen Vanbrabant, Rachel de Jong, Keno Juechems, Anke Ehlers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5638232?pdf=render