[HTML][HTML] Pharmacology of cognitive enhancers for exposure-based therapy of fear, anxiety and trauma-related disorders

N Singewald, C Schmuckermair, N Whittle… - Pharmacology & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Pathological fear and anxiety are highly debilitating and, despite considerable advances in
psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy they remain insufficiently treated in many patients with …

Understanding posttraumatic stress disorder through fear conditioning, extinction and reconsolidation

MBL Careaga, CEN Girardi, D Suchecki - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Careaga MBL, Girardi CEN, Suchecki D. Understanding posttraumatic stress
disorder through fear conditioning, extinction and reconsolidation. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV …

Brain sites involved in fear memory reconsolidation and extinction of rodents

E Baldi, C Bucherelli - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Fear memory is a motivational system essential for organisms survival having a central role
in organization of defensive behaviors to threat. In the last years there has been a growing …

Modulation of the extinction of two different fear-motivated tasks in three distinct brain areas

NG Fiorenza, J Rosa, I Izquierdo, JC Myskiw - Behavioural brain research, 2012 - Elsevier
The hippocampus, basolateral amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex participate in
the extinction of inhibitory avoidance and contextual fear conditioning. We studied the effect …

Modulation of fear extinction by stress, stress hormones and estradiol: a review

U Stockhorst, MI Antov - Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Fear acquisition and extinction are valid models for the etiology and treatment of anxiety,
trauma-and stressor-related disorders. These disorders are assumed to involve aversive …

Oxytocinergic manipulations in corticolimbic circuit differentially affect fear acquisition and extinction

N Lahoud, M Maroun - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2013 - Elsevier
The oxytocinergic system promotes social behavior and reduces anxiety. The significant
roles and functional interactions of the medial prefrontal cortex and the amygdala in the …

Fear extinction deficits following acute stress associate with increased spine density and dendritic retraction in basolateral amygdala neurons

M Maroun, PJ Ioannides, KL Bergman… - European Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Stress‐sensitive psychopathologies such as post‐traumatic stress disorder are
characterized by deficits in fear extinction and dysfunction of corticolimbic circuits mediating …

The long-lasting antidepressant effects of rapastinel (GLYX-13) are associated with a metaplasticity process in the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus

J Burgdorf, XL Zhang, C Weiss, A Gross, SR Boikess… - Neuroscience, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Rapastinel (GLYX-13) is an N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) modulator that
has characteristics of a glycine site partial agonist. Rapastinel is a robust cognitive enhancer …

Learning-induced changes in mPFC–BLA connections after fear conditioning, extinction, and reinstatement of fear

RM Vouimba, M Maroun - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2011 - nature.com
The neural circuit linking the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and the basolateral amygdala
(BLA) has crucial roles in both the acquisition and the extinction of fear. However, the …

Enhanced extinction of aversive memories by high-frequency stimulation of the rat infralimbic cortex

M Maroun, A Kavushansky, A Holmes, C Wellman… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Electrical stimulation of the rodent medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), including the infralimbic
cortex (IL), immediately prior to or during fear extinction training facilitates extinction …