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A behavioural neuroscience perspective on the aetiology and treatment of anxiety disorders

Kindt, Merel·2014·Behaviour Research and Therapy

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Over the past decades, behaviour and cognitive psychology have produced fruitful and mutually converging theories from which hypotheses could be derived on the nature and origin of fear and anxiety disorders. Notwithstanding the emergence of effective treatments, there are still many questions that remain to be answered. Here, I will argue that the burgeoning field of behavioural neuroscience may advance our understanding of fear, anxiety disorders and its treatments. Decades of fear-conditioning research across species have begun to elucidate the neurobiological mechanisms underlying associative fear learning and memory. The fear-conditioning paradigm provides a well-controlled and fine-grained research platform to examine these processes. Although the traditional fear conditioning paradigm was originally designed to unveil general principles of fear (un)learning, it is well-suited to understand the transition from normal fear to pathological fear and the mechanisms of change. This paper presents 1) a selection of fear conditioning studies on the generalization and persistence of associative fear memory as intermediate phenotypes of fear and anxiety disorders, and 2) insights from neuroscience on the malleability of fear memory with the potential to provide a long-term cure for anxiety and related disorders.

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  • Fear conditioning has become widely regarded as a valid experimental model of clinical anxiety disorders.

    “Fear conditioning has become widely regarded as a valid experimental model of clinical anxiety disorders and thus it is hoped that further advances in the scientific study of fear-conditioning processes will yield translational benefits in the form of optimized pathophysiological models of these common mental health disorders.2”

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Authors
Kindt, M.
Affiliations
University of Amsterdam (NL)
Corresponding author
Kindt, Merel
Venue
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2014-11
Volume
62
Pages
24-36
ISSN
0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2015776484
Cited by
103
References
229
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FWCI
6.51
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • Behaviour Research and Therapy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (publishedVersion)
  • UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion)
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Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Keywords
anxiety disorders, fear conditioning, fear generalization, fear extinction, endophenotypes, anxiety treatment
MeSH terms
Anxiety Disorders, Association Learning, Conditioning, Psychological, Extinction, Psychological, Fear, Humans, Neurosciences

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