Fear Extinction Retention: Is It What We Think It Is?

Tina B Lonsdorf; Christian J Merz; Miquel A Fullana

doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.02.011

Fear Extinction Retention

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Fear Extinction Retention : Is It What We Think It Is? / Lonsdorf, Tina B; Merz, Christian J; Fullana, Miquel A.

In: BIOL PSYCHIAT, Vol. 85, No. 12, 15.06.2019, p. 1074-1082.

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Lonsdorf, TB, Merz, CJ & Fullana, MA 2019, 'Fear Extinction Retention: Is It What We Think It Is?', BIOL PSYCHIAT, vol. 85, no. 12, pp. 1074-1082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.02.011

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Lonsdorf, T. B., Merz, C. J., & Fullana, M. A. (2019). Fear Extinction Retention: Is It What We Think It Is? BIOL PSYCHIAT, 85(12), 1074-1082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.02.011

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Lonsdorf TB, Merz CJ, Fullana MA. Fear Extinction Retention: Is It What We Think It Is? BIOL PSYCHIAT. 2019 Jun 15;85(12):1074-1082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.02.011

Bibtex

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title = "Fear Extinction Retention: Is It What We Think It Is?",

abstract = "There has been an explosion of research on fear extinction in humans in the past 2 decades. This has not only generated major insights, but also brought a new goal into focus: how to maintain extinction memory over time (i.e., extinction retention). We argue that there are still important conceptual and procedural challenges in human fear extinction research that hamper advancement in the field. We use extinction retention and the extinction retention index to exemplarily illustrate these challenges. Our systematic literature search identified 16 different operationalizations of the extinction retention index. Correlation coefficients among these different operationalizations as well as among measures of fear/anxiety show a wide range of variability in four independent datasets, with similar findings across datasets. Our results suggest that there is an urgent need for standardization in the field. We discuss the conceptual and empirical implications of these results and provide specific recommendations for future work.",

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