Rethinking avoidance: Toward a balanced approach to avoidance in treating anxiety disorders

SG Hofmann, AC Hay - Journal of anxiety disorders, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Neural oscillatory correlates for conditioning and extinction of fear

C Trenado, N Pedroarena-Leal, L Cif, M Nitsche… - Biomedicines, 2018 - mdpi.com
The extinction of conditioned-fear represents a hallmark of current exposure therapies as it
has been found to be impaired in people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder …

Behavioral interventions to eliminate fear responses

J Yue, L Shi, X Lin, MZ Khan, J Shi, L Lu - Science China Life Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Fear memory underlies anxiety-related disorders, including posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD). PTSD is a fear-based disorder, characterized by difficulties in extinguishing the …

[PDF][PDF] Reduced alpha wave EEG measures in PTSD after narrative virtual reality art making

SL Gaskell - Unpublished manuscript, 2018 - researchgate.net
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the use of therapeutic
visual-motor activity in narrative virtual reality art making and the reduced alpha wave EEG …