Differential effects of controllable stress exposure on subsequent extinction learning in adult rats

Deficits in fear extinction are thought to be related to various anxiety disorders. While failure to extinguish conditioned fear may result in pathological anxiety levels, the ability to quickly and efficiently attenuate learned fear through extinction processes can be extremely beneficial for the i...

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Main Authors: Osnat eHadad-Ophir, Noa eBrande-Eilat, Gal eRichter-Levin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00366/full