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 …

Fear generalization in humans: systematic review and implications for anxiety disorder research

S Dymond, JE Dunsmoor, B Vervliet, B Roche… - Behavior therapy, 2015 - Elsevier
Fear generalization, in which conditioned fear responses generalize or spread to related
stimuli, is a defining feature of anxiety disorders. The behavioral consequences of …

Overanxious and underslept

E Ben Simon, A Rossi, AG Harvey… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
Are you feeling anxious? Did you sleep poorly last night? Sleep disruption is a recognized
feature of all anxiety disorders. Here, we investigate the basic brain mechanisms underlying …

Mechanisms linking childhood adversity with psychopathology: Learning as an intervention target

KA McLaughlin, SN DeCross, T Jovanovic… - Behaviour research and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Exposure to childhood adversity is common and a powerful risk factor for many forms of
psychopathology. In this opinion piece, we argue for greater translation of knowledge about …

Neuroinflammation-associated alterations of the brain as potential neural biomarkers in anxiety disorders

E Won, YK Kim - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Stress-induced changes in the immune system, which lead to neuroinflammation and
consequent brain alterations, have been suggested as possible neurobiological substrates …

Biological markers of generalized anxiety disorder

E Maron, D Nutt - Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a prevalent and highly disabling mental health
condition; however, there is still much to learn with regard to pertinent biomarkers, as well as …

Influence of reward motivation on human declarative memory

EA Miendlarzewska, D Bavelier, S Schwartz - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Motivational relevance can prioritize information for memory encoding and consolidation
based on reward value. In this review, we pinpoint the possible psychological and neural …

Fear learning circuitry is biased toward generalization of fear associations in posttraumatic stress disorder

RA Morey, JE Dunsmoor, CC Haswell… - Translational …, 2015 - nature.com
Fear conditioning is an established model for investigating posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD). However, symptom triggers may vaguely resemble the initial traumatic event …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review and meta-analyses of neural structural and functional differences in generalized anxiety disorder and healthy controls using magnetic …

TA Kolesar, E Bilevicius, AD Wilson, J Kornelsen - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective To compare structure, functional connectivity (FC) and task-based neural
differences in subjects with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) compared to healthy …

Fear one, fear them all: A systematic review and meta-analysis of fear generalization in pathological anxiety

L Fraunfelter, ABM Gerdes, GW Alpers - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2022 - Elsevier
It is a defining feature of anxiety disorders that fear is elicited by a circumscribed class of
stimuli rather than by only one specific exemplar of that class. Therefore, fear generalization …