Prefrontal dopamine regulates fear reinstatement through the downregulation of extinction circuits
Prevention of relapses is a major challenge in treating anxiety disorders. Fear reinstatement can cause relapse in spite of successful fear reduction through extinction-based exposure therapy. By utilising a contextual fear-conditioning task in mice, we found that reinstatement was accompanied by de...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2015
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4547090/ |