Predicting clinical outcomes via human fear conditioning: A narrative review

2021/05/14 by Sara Scheveneels, Yannick Boddez, Dirk Hermans · 41 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Anxiety #Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes #Association (psychology) #Classical conditioning #Clinical psychology #Cognitive psychology #Conditioning #Developmental psychology #Extinction (optical mineralogy) #Fear conditioning #Generalization #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Phobic disorder #Psychiatry #Psychology #Psychotherapist #Recall #Statistics #Stress Responses and Cortisol

paper · open access · doi:10.1016/j.brat.2021.103870

published in Behaviour Research and Therapy 142, 103870 (Elsevier BV)

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