Low-Cost Avoidance Behaviors Are Resistant To Fear Extinction In Humans
Elevated levels of fear and avoidance are core symptoms across the anxiety disorders. It has long been known that fear serves to motivate avoidance. Consequently, fear extinction has been the primary focus in pre-clinical anxiety research for decades, under the implicit assumption that removing the...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00351/full |