Enhancing fear extinction

Elife. 2024 Apr 15:13:e97633. doi: 10.7554/eLife.97633.

Sydney Trask^{1

2}, Nicole C Ferrara^{3

4}

¹ Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University West Lafayette, West Lafayette, United States.
² Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience, Purdue University West Lafayette, West Lafayette, United States.
³ Center for Neurobiology of Stress Resilience and Psychiatric Disorders, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, United States.
⁴ Discipline of Physiology and Biophysics, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, United States.

Abstract

Gradually reducing a source of fear during extinction treatments may weaken negative memories in the long term.

Keywords: extinction; memory; neuroscience; prediction error; rat.