Anxiety and stress-related disorders are more prevalent in women and associated with
negative emotional memory consolidation as well as impaired fear extinction recall. Recent …

Exposure therapy is a central component of the first-line treatment for anxiety disorders, a
common mental health condition that is twice as prevalent in women relative to men. A key …

Hormonal contraceptives are among the most important health and economic developments
in the 20th Century, providing unprecedented reproductive control and a range of health …

It is known that humans and rodents are capable of transmitting stress to their naive partners
via social interaction. However, a comprehensive understanding of transmitted stress, which …

Background Hyperconsolidation of aversive associations and poor extinction learning have
been hypothesized to be crucial in the acquisition of pathological fear. Previous animal and …

Fear extinction is a learning mechanism that is pivotal for the inhibition of fear responses
towards cues or contexts that no longer predict the occurrence of a threat. Failure of fear …

Background Recent years have shown an increased application of prospective trajectory-
oriented approaches to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although women are …

Fear extinction is pivotal for inhibiting fear responding to former threat‐predictive stimuli. In
rodents, short intervals between fear acquisition and extinction impair extinction recall …

The ability to flexibly adjust one's threat predictions to meet the current environmental
contingencies is crucial to survival. Nevertheless, its neural oscillatory correlates remain …

Following a traumatic event, fear dysregulation can increase the likelihood of developing
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This psychopathology is twice as prevalent in women …