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Direct linkPonnusamy, Ravikumar; Nissim, Helen A.; Barad, Mark – Learning & Memory, 2005
Extinction of conditioned fear in animals is the explicit model of behavior therapy for human anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Based on previous data indicating that fear extinction in rats is blocked by quinpirole, an agonist of dopamine D2 receptors, we hypothesized…
Descriptors: Memory, Behavior Modification, Fear, Anxiety
