The prefrontal cortex, pathological anxiety, and anxiety disorders

MM Kenwood, NH Kalin, H Barbas - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
Anxiety is experienced in response to threats that are distal or uncertain, involving changes
in one's subjective state, autonomic responses, and behavior. Defensive and physiologic …

[HTML][HTML] Don't fear 'fear conditioning': Methodological considerations for the design and analysis of studies on human fear acquisition, extinction, and return of fear

TB Lonsdorf, MM Menz, M Andreatta… - Neuroscience & …, 2017 - Elsevier
The so-called 'replicability crisis' has sparked methodological discussions in many areas of
science in general, and in psychology in particular. This has led to recent endeavours to …

[PDF][PDF] Estrés laboral, ansiedad y miedo al COVID-19 en médicos generales colombianos

Á Monterrosa-Castro, R Dávila-Ruiz, A Mejía-Mantilla… - MedUNAB, 2020 - redalyc.org
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The role of associative fear and avoidance learning in anxiety disorders: Gaps and directions for future research

A Pittig, M Treanor, RT LeBeau, MG Craske - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders and are often chronic and
disabling. Although exposure-based treatments are effective, a substantial number of …

Fear generalization and anxiety: behavioral and neural mechanisms

JE Dunsmoor, R Paz - Biological psychiatry, 2015 - Elsevier
Fear can be an adaptive emotion that helps defend against potential danger. Classical
conditioning models elegantly describe how animals learn which stimuli in the environment …

A meta-analysis of conditioned fear generalization in anxiety-related disorders

SE Cooper, EAM van Dis, MA Hagenaars… - …, 2022 - nature.com
Generalization of conditioned fear is adaptive in some situations but maladaptive when fear
excessively generalizes to innocuous stimuli with incidental resemblance to a genuine …

[HTML][HTML] Fear in the context of pain: Lessons learned from 100 years of fear conditioning research

A Meulders - Behaviour research and therapy, 2020 - Elsevier
Human fear conditioning research since Watson's case study on “Little Albert” has vastly
evolved and its impact today is reaching far beyond phobic anxiety. This review focuses on …

Children are more exploratory and learn more than adults in an approach-avoid task

EG Liquin, A Gopnik - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
Intuitively, children appear to be more exploratory than adults, and this exploration seems to
help children learn,. However, there have been few clear tests of these ideas. We test …

[HTML][HTML] Avoidance and its bi-directional relationship with conditioned fear: Mechanisms, moderators, and clinical implications

A Pittig, AHK Wong, VM Glück, JM Boschet - Behaviour Research and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fear motivates different types of defensive behaviors. These behaviors are, however, not
mere byproducts of fear. In this review, we highlight a bi-directional relationship between …

Anxiety and hippocampal neuronal activity: Relationship and potential mechanisms

M Ghasemi, M Navidhamidi, F Rezaei… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2022 - Springer
The hippocampus has been implicated in modulating anxiety. It interacts with a variety of
brain regions, both cortical and subcortical areas regulating emotion and stress responses …