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High Current Anxiety Symptoms, But Not a Past Anxiety Disorder Diagnosis, are Associated with Impaired Fear Extinction

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, February 2016
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Title
High Current Anxiety Symptoms, But Not a Past Anxiety Disorder Diagnosis, are Associated with Impaired Fear Extinction
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Frontiers in Psychology, February 2016
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00252
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Puck Duits, Danielle C. Cath, Ivo Heitland, Johanna M. P. Baas

Abstract

Although impaired fear extinction has repeatedly been demonstrated in patients with anxiety disorders, little is known about whether these impairments persist after treatment. The current comparative exploratory study investigated fear extinction in 26 patients treated for their anxiety disorder in the years preceding the study as compared to 17 healthy control subjects. Fear-potentiated startle and subjective fear were measured in a cue and context fear conditioning paradigm within a virtual reality environment. Results indicated no differences in fear extinction between treated anxiety patients and control subjects. However, scores on the Beck Anxiety Inventory across all participants revealed impaired extinction of fear potentiated startle in subjects with high compared to low anxiety symptoms over the past week. Taken together, this exploratory study found no support for impaired fear extinction in treated anxiety patients, and implies that current anxiety symptoms rather than previous patient status determine the success of extinction.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 78 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 23%
Student > Master 9 12%
Student > Bachelor 9 12%
Researcher 7 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 4%
Other 11 14%
Unknown 21 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 31 40%
Neuroscience 9 12%
Computer Science 2 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 1%
Other 8 10%
Unknown 25 32%
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#277
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