Fear generalization, in which conditioned fear responses generalize or spread to related
stimuli, is a defining feature of anxiety disorders. The behavioral consequences of …

It is a defining feature of anxiety disorders that fear is elicited by a circumscribed class of
stimuli rather than by only one specific exemplar of that class. Therefore, fear generalization …

Generalization of conditioned fear is adaptive in some situations but maladaptive when fear
excessively generalizes to innocuous stimuli with incidental resemblance to a genuine …

Laboratory experiments using fear conditioning and extinction protocols help lay the
groundwork for designing, testing, and optimizing innovative treatments for anxiety-related …

Overgeneralization (ie, the transfer of fear to stimuli not related to an aversive event) is part
of alterations in associative fear learning in mental disorders. In the present experimental …

OBJECTIVE Advances in understanding the neurobiological basis of psychiatric disorders
will improve the ability to refine neuromodulatory procedures for treatment-refractory …

Although overgeneralization seems to be a hallmark of several anxiety disorders, this until
now has not been investigated in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Therefore, we examined …

Given the high prevalence rates of comorbidity of anxiety and depressive disorders,
identifying a common neural pathway to both disorders is important not only for better …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that develops in some
individuals in the aftermath of exposure to traumatic events, such as actual or threatened …

Pavlovian fear conditioning provides a model for anxiety-related disorders, including
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, disgust is the predominant emotional …