“Eye-movement intervention enhances extinction via amygdala deactivation,” J Neurosci ... and her colleagues sought to integrate EMDR and a form of conditioning known as fear extinction, a way of ...

This useful study presents a virtual reality-based contextual fear conditioning paradigm for head-fixed mice. The approach provides a way to perform multiphoton imaging of neural circuits during ...

Presenting the tone without the shock can diminish this conditioned fear; this process is called extinction. Since Pavlov's original conditioning ... such as the amygdala, and dampen the ...

Fear conditioning plays a crucial role in how ... When parents were present, the children showed a reduced fear response in ...