Classical Fear Conditioning


Source: Breedlove & Watson (2013) Fig. 15.5 (a) p. 470.

Basic Stages of Fear and Extinction Learning



Source: Graham & al. (2014), Fig, 1, p. 6

Regions for Aquisition

CR to a simple acoustic CS
Disappears

  • after lesion of the inferior colliculi
  • after lesion of the medial geniculate body
    Remains
  • after lesion of the primary auditory cortex (neocortex)
    → primary A1 Auditory Cortex not necessary for CR to simple acoustic CS

    Source: Quirk & Mueller, 2008; Fig: 3

Extinction

Positive Korrelation Aktivation des medialen präfrontalen Cortex und
Erfolg des Extinktionslernens Studie Phelps et al. (2004)

Source: Carlson (2013), Fig. 11.4, p. 364

  • Angststörungen: Extinktion konditionierter Furcht gelingt nicht (Milad et al., 2010)
  • Extinktion als Ziel der Expositionstherapie
  • PTSD-Patienten: Defizite bei Furchtextinktion

Fear recall
Amygdala, dACC, dmPFC, Hippocampus

Extinction recall
Amygdala, vmPFC, Hippocampus

Differences in genders


Source: Cover et al. ( 2014), Fig. 2, p.2

see also

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Classical Conditioning
Amygdala
Fear Network

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