Brain activation during fear extinction predicts exposure success
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DOI: 10.1002/da.22583
Abstract: Exposure therapy, a gold‐standard treatment for anxiety disorders, is assumed to work via extinction learning, but this has never been tested. Anxious individuals demonstrate extinction learning deficits, likely related to less ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)… read more here.
Keywords: activation fear; extinction; extinction learning; brain activation ... See more keywords