Mechanisms of fear learning and extinction: synaptic plasticity-fear memory connection.

Rationale: The ability to memorize threat-associated cues and subsequently react to them, exhibiting escape or avoidance responses, is an essential, often life-saving behavioral mechanism that can be experimentally studied using the fear (threat) conditioning training paradigm. Presently, there is s...

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Published in:Psychopharmacology Vol. 236; no. 1; pp. 163 - 183
Main Authors: Luchkina, Natalia V., Bolshakov, Vadim Y.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Jan2019
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