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Specific Phobia: A Disorder of Fear Conditioning and Extinction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Dan J. Stein  and
Hisato Matsunaga
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Abstract

Specific phobia is the most prevalent of the anxiety disorders. Although there have been relatively few studies of its psychobiology and pharmacotherapy, there is a rich laboratory of literature on fear conditioning and extinction and a clear evolutionary perspective. Advances in the cognitive-affective neuroscience of fear processing may ultimately lead to new approaches to the clinical management of phobias.

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Pearls in Clinical Neuroscience
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , April 2006 , pp. 248 - 251
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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