Article
Genetic disruptions of Drosophila Pavlovian learning leave extinction learning intact.
Genes, brain, and behavior - 1 Mar 2010
Qin H, Dubnau J
Abstract excerpt
Individuals who experience traumatic events may develop persistent posttraumatic stress disorder. Patients with this disorder are commonly treated with exposure therapy, which has had limited long-term success. In experimental neurobiology, fear extinction is a model for exposure therapy. In this behavioral paradigm, animals are repeatedly exposed in a safe environment to the fearful stimulus, which leads to...
Topics
- Animals
- Avoidance Learning
- Drosophila
- Extinction, Psychological
- Learning
- Memory
- Mutation
- Odorants
