Bilateral Alternating Auditory Stimulations Facilitate Fear Extinction and Retrieval

Bilateral Alternating Auditory Stimulations Facilitate Fear Extinction and Retrieval

Disruption of fear conditioning, its extinction and its retrieval are at the core of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Such deficits, especially fear extinction delay, disappear after alternating bilateral stimulations (BLS) during eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. An...

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Main Authors: Sarah Boukezzi, Catarina Silva, Bruno Nazarian, Pierre-François Rousseau, Eric Guedj, Camila Valenzuela-Moguillansky, Stéphanie Khalfa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
fear conditioning
fear extinction
EMDR
skin conductance
stress
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00990/full

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