Browsing by Subject "fear conditioning"
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(2020-04-08)Humans and animals use environmental cues to determine appropriate defensive responses. Understanding the mechanisms of context-mediated fear responses is crucial, as the dysregulation of these processes are central to ...
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(2023-03-28)Fear extinction is a prefrontal-dependent process that promotes the suppression of learned fear. Unlike fear memory, extinction memory is less durable and sensitive to a variety of factors, including stress. This is ...
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(2014-12-08)The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) is thought to be involved in the expression of fear to shock-associated contexts, but not to discrete conditional stimuli (CSs) paired with shock. Because context plays an ...