Assessing fear following retrieval+extinction through suppression of baseline reward seeking vs. freezing

Freezing has become the predominant measure used in rodent studies of conditioned fear, but conditioned suppression of reward-seeking behavior may provide a measure that is more relevant to human anxiety disorders; that is, a measure of how fear interferes with the enjoyment of pleasurable activitie...

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Main Authors: Jason eShumake, Marie H Monfils
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00355/full