ArticleBehaviour research and therapy2018
Exploring the boundaries of post-retrieval extinction in healthy and anxious individuals.
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- Effect of d-cycloserine on fear extinction training in adults with social anxiety disorder.PloS one · 2019Trial
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- Fear attenuation collaborations to optimize translation.Behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Carbon Dioxide Reactivity Differentially Predicts Fear Expression After Extinction and Retrieval-Extinction in Rats.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Article
- Using pre-treatment de novo threat conditioning outcomes to predict treatment response to DCS augmentation of exposure-based CBT.Journal of psychiatric research · 2023Article
- Understanding clinical fear and anxiety through the lens of human fear conditioning.Nature reviews psychology · 2023Review
- Reconsolidation and Fear Extinction: An Update.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2023Article
- Skin conductance levels and responses in Asian and White participants during fear conditioningPhysiology & behavior · 2022Article
- Investigating the efficacy of the reminder-extinction procedure to disrupt contextual threat memories in humans using immersive Virtual Reality.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- No persistent attenuation of fear memories in humans: A registered replication of the reactivation-extinction effect.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2020Article
- Destabilizing Different Strengths of Fear Memories Requires Different Degrees of Prediction Error During Retrieval.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Counterconditioning following memory retrieval diminishes the reinstatement of appetitive memories in humans.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
Over a dozen studies have examined the efficacy of post-retrieval extinction (PRE) in healthy adults in the fear conditioning laboratory, with a recent meta-analysis reporting an overall small-moderate effect on attenuating the return of fear compared to standard extinction. The current study was designed to extend PRE effects to a mixed sample of healthy and anxious individuals, explore potential moderators, and examine the benefit of PRE for a memory conditioned over multiple days. Healthy (n = 49) and anxious (n = 43) adults received either one day of acquisition followed by PRE, one day of acquisition followed by extinction, or three days of acquisition followed by PRE. Comparing participants who received one day of acquisition followed by PRE or extinction, no significant effect of PRE was observed on differential skin conductance response reinstatement or reactivity to the conditioned stimulus alone. Anxiety symptoms did not moderate outcomes. There was no difference in return of fear for anxious participants who received three days of acquisition followed by PRE versus one day of acquisition followed by PRE. These results further highlight the variability of findings in the PRE literature and need for further examination of individual difference factors that may moderate PRE effects.
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