Attention bias toward threat is associated with exaggerated fear expression and impaired extinction in PTSD

N Fani, EB Tone, J Phifer, SD Norrholm… - Psychological …, 2012 - cambridge.org
BackgroundPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops in a minority of traumatized
individuals. Attention biases to threat and abnormalities in fear learning and extinction are …

Fear extinction in traumatized civilians with posttraumatic stress disorder: relation to symptom severity

SD Norrholm, T Jovanovic, IW Olin, LA Sands… - Biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND:: The symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be explained,
at least in part, as an inability to inhibit learned fear during conditions of safety. Our group …

Tools for translational neuroscience: PTSD is associated with heightened fear responses using acoustic startle but not skin conductance measures

EM Glover, JE Phifer, DF Crain… - Depression and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients show heightened fear responses
to trauma reminders and an inability to inhibit fear in the presence of safety reminders. Brain …

[HTML][HTML] PTSD symptom severity is associated with increased recruitment of top-down attentional control in a trauma-exposed sample

SF White, ME Costanzo, JR Blair, MJ Roy - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Recent neuroimaging work suggests that increased amygdala responses to
emotional stimuli and dysfunction within regions mediating top down attentional control …

The innate alarm system in PTSD: conscious and subconscious processing of threat

RA Lanius, D Rabellino, JE Boyd, S Harricharan… - Current opinion in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Subconscious processing of threat is an understudied, yet key, process in
PTSD.•The innate alarm system is central to responding to threat subconsciously.•The …

Neural correlates of attention bias to threat in post-traumatic stress disorder

N Fani, T Jovanovic, TD Ely, B Bradley, D Gutman… - Biological …, 2012 - Elsevier
Attentional biases have been proposed to contribute to symptom maintenance in
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), although the neural correlates of these processes …

[HTML][HTML] Avoidant symptoms in PTSD predict fear circuit activation during multimodal fear extinction

RK Sripada, SN Garfinkel, I Liberzon - Frontiers in Human …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Convergent evidence suggests that individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
exhibit exaggerated avoidance behaviors as well as abnormalities in Pavlonian fear …

The centrality of fear extinction in linking risk factors to PTSD: A narrative review

DV Zuj, MA Palmer, MJJ Lommen… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Recent prospective studies in emergency services have identified impaired fear extinction
learning and memory to be a significant predictor of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) …

Altered processing of contextual information during fear extinction in PTSD: an fMRI study

A RougemontBücking, C Linnman… - CNS neuroscience & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Medial prefrontal cortical areas have been hypothesized to underlie altered contextual
processing in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We investigated brain signaling of …

[HTML][HTML] Fear learning circuitry is biased toward generalization of fear associations in posttraumatic stress disorder

RA Morey, JE Dunsmoor, CC Haswell… - Translational …, 2015 - nature.com
Fear conditioning is an established model for investigating posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD). However, symptom triggers may vaguely resemble the initial traumatic event …