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The genetic covariation between fear conditioning and self-report fears.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Mar 2008
Hettema John M, Annas Peter, Neale Michael C, Fredrikson Mats, Kendler Kenneth S
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BACKGROUND: Fear conditioning is a traditional model for the acquisition of phobias, whereas behavioral therapies use processes underlying extinction to treat phobic and other anxiety disorders. Furthermore, fear conditioning has been proposed as an endophenotype for genetic studies of anxiety disorders. Although prior studies have demonstrated that fear conditioning and self-report fears are heritable, no...
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