Fear Extinction

Enhancing Fear Extinction: Pharmacological Approaches

Fear Extinction 2023 Olga Y. Ponomareva, Robert J. Fenster, Kerry J. Ressler

Extinction is the process by which the memory of a learned conditioned association decreases over time and with introduction of new associations. It is a vital part of fear learning, and it is critical to recovery in multiple fear-related disorders, including Specific and Social Phobias, Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The process...