Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Packard, Mark"
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Gerkens, David (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Research in our laboratory has demonstrated blocked and recovered memories within the context of a controlled experiment. The comparative memory paradigm allows for comparisons of recovered memories, continuous memories, ...
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Goode, Travis D. (2018-06-22)Anxiety disorders are among the most common and debilitating forms of mental illnesses in society. Through greater understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of anxiety, as well as of the factors that lead to the persistence ...
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Leong, Kah-Chung (2014-09-18)Recently studies have uncovered a wealth of evidence supporting the theory that different areas of the mammalian brain mediate different types of memory. Specifically, evidence suggests that memory does not exist as a ...
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Giustino, Thomas Francis (2019-06-04)Early intervention strategies (e.g., psychological debriefing and exposure therapy) are thought to rely on extinction-like mechanisms to reduce pathological fear. These therapies attempt to reduce or prevent the development ...
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Kim, Janice J (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 ...
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Ramanathan, Karthik Ramakrishnan (2020-07-01)Stress and anxiety disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) pose a significant burden to the society. Existing cognitive-behavioral treatments are centered around exposure therapy which, while effective in ...