Interoceptive fear learning to mild breathlessness as a laboratory model for unexpected panic attacks

Interoceptive fear learning to mild breathlessness as a laboratory model for unexpected panic attacks

Fear learning is thought to play an important role in panic disorder. Benign interoceptive sensations can become predictors (conditioned stimuli - CSs) of massive fear when experienced in the context of an initial panic attack (unconditioned stimulus – US). The mere encounter of these CSs on a later...

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Main Authors: Meike ePappens, Omer eVan Den Bergh, Evelien eVandebossche, Ilse eVan Diest
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Panic
Respiration
Fear conditioning
Dual process theory
interoceptive fear
CS-US contingency
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01150/full

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