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 …

The study of fear extinction represents an important example of translational neuroscience in
psychiatry and promises to improve the understanding and treatment of anxiety and fear …

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 …

Pain is considered a hardwired signal of bodily disturbance belonging to a basic
motivational system that urges the individual to act and to restore the body's integrity, rather …

Renewal is a 'return of fear'manipulation in human fear conditioning to investigate learning
processes underlying anxiety and trauma. Even though renewal paradigms are widely used …

Cognitive reappraisal and fear extinction learning represent two different approaches to
emotion regulation. While their respective neural correlates have been widely studied with …

Behavioral strategies to enhance fear extinction may provide powerful clinical applications
to further maximize the efficacy of exposure-based interventions. However, future …

Uncertainty is often inevitable in everyday life and can be both stressful and exciting. Given
its relevance to psychopathology and wellbeing, recent research has begun to address the …

Anatomically interconnected, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and amygdala
interact in emotion processing. However, no meta-analyses have focused on studies that …

This functional magnetic resonance imaging study addressed similarities and differences in
behavioral and neural responses to experimental visceral compared with somatic pain …