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SUBMITTER: Gerlicher AMV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6191435 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gerlicher A M V AMV Tüscher O O Kalisch R R
Nature communications 20181016 1
Fear extinction does not prevent post-traumatic stress or have long-term therapeutic benefits in fear-related disorders unless extinction memories are easily retrieved at later encounters with the once-threatening stimulus. Previous research in rodents has pointed towards a role for spontaneous prefrontal activity occurring after extinction learning in stabilizing and consolidating extinction memories. In other memory domains spontaneous post-learning activity has been linked to dopamine. Here, ...[more]