[HTML][HTML] Learning dynamics of electrophysiological brain signals during human fear conditioning

MFJ Sperl, A Wroblewski, M Mueller, B Straube… - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Electrophysiological studies in rodents allow recording neural activity during threats with
high temporal and spatial precision. Although fMRI has helped translate insights about the …

Impact of observational and direct learning on fear conditioning and generalization in humans

H Dou, Y Lei, Y Pan, H Li, P Astikainen - Progress in Neuro …, 2023 - Elsevier
Humans gain knowledge about threats not only from their own experiences but also from
observing others' behavior. A neutral stimulus is associated with a threat stimulus for several …

Transcranial direct current stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex modulates perceptual and neural patterns of fear generalization

K Roesmann, T Kroker, S Hein, M Rehbein… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Overgeneralization of fear is a pathogenic marker of anxiety and stress-related
disorders and has been linked with perceptual discrimination deficits, reduced fear …

Noninvasive stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex modulates rationality of human decision-making

T Kroker, M Wyczesany, MA Rehbein, K Roesmann… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The framing-effect is a bias that affects decision-making depending on whether the available
options are presented with positive or negative connotations. Even when the outcome of two …

Neuronal activity in sensory cortex predicts the specificity of learning in mice

KC Wood, CF Angeloni, K Oxman, C Clopath… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Learning to avoid dangerous signals while preserving normal responses to safe stimuli is
essential for everyday behavior and survival. Following identical experiences, subjects …

Behavioral and magnetoencephalographic correlates of fear generalization are associated with responses to later virtual reality exposure therapy in spider phobia

K Roesmann, EJ Leehr, J Böhnlein, C Steinberg… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Because overgeneralization of fear is a pathogenic marker of anxiety disorders,
we investigated whether pretreatment levels of fear generalization in spider-phobic patients …

Behavioral and physiological sensitivity to natural sick faces

TS Leung, SE Maylott, G Zeng, DN Nascimben… - Brain, Behavior, and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The capacity to rapidly detect and avoid sick people may be adaptive. Given that faces are
reliably available, as well as rapidly detected and processed, they may provide health …

[HTML][HTML] Neural correlates of fear conditioning are associated with treatment-outcomes to behavioral exposure in spider phobia–Evidence from …

K Roesmann, J Toelle, EJ Leehr, I Wessing… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Models of anxiety disorders and the rationale of exposure therapy (ET) are
grounded on classical fear conditioning. Yet, it is unclear whether lower fear ratings of …

Reducing generalization of conditioned fear: Beneficial impact of fear relevance and feedback in discrimination training

K Herzog, M Andreatta, K Schneider… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Anxiety patients over-generalize fear, possibly because of an incapacity to discriminate
threat and safety signals. Discrimination trainings are promising approaches for reducing …

Neurocognitive mechanisms of mental imagery-based disgust learning

J Wang, S Shen, B Becker, MHL Tsang, Y Mei… - … Research and Therapy, 2024 - Elsevier
Disgust imagery represents a potential pathological mechanism for disgust-related
disorders. However, it remains controversial as to whether disgust can be conditioned with …