Prefrontal dopamine regulates fear reinstatement through the downregulation of extinction circuits

Prevention of relapses is a major challenge in treating anxiety disorders. Fear reinstatement can cause relapse in spite of successful fear reduction through extinction-based exposure therapy. By utilising a contextual fear-conditioning task in mice, we found that reinstatement was accompanied by de...

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Main Authors: Natsuko Hitora-Imamura, Yuki Miura, Chie Teshirogi, Yuji Ikegaya, Norio Matsuki, Hiroshi Nomura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2015-07-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/08274