Mental health problems often involve clusters of symptoms that include subjective
(conscious) experiences as well as behavioral and/or physiological responses. Because the …

Initiating and maintaining behavior change is key to the prevention and treatment of most
preventable chronic medical and psychiatric illnesses. The cultivation of mindfulness …

Research from recent decades has highlighted the distinction between excitatory and
inhibitory Pavlovian learning mechanisms. Based on this distinction, state-of-the-art …

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent, debilitating and sometimes deadly
consequence of exposure to severe psychological trauma. Although effective treatments …

Through advances in both basic and clinical scientific research, Pavlovian fear conditioning
and extinction have become an exemplary translational model for understanding and …

Emotion regulation has been put forward as an important transdiagnostic process. However,
previous analyses of the relationships between emotion regulation strategies and symptoms …

Research on defensive behaviour in mammals has in recent years focused on elicited
reactions; however, organisms also make active choices when responding to danger. We …

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders and are often chronic and
disabling. Although exposure-based treatments are effective, a substantial number of …

Avoidance is typically considered a maladaptive behavioral response to excessive fear and
anxiety, leading to the maintenance of anxiety disorders. Exposure is a core element of …

Atypical behavioral responses to environmental sounds are common in autistic children and
adults, with 50–70% of this population exhibiting decreased sound tolerance (DST) at some …