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The COMTval158met polymorphism is associated with symptom relief during exposure-based cognitive-behavioral treatment in panic disorder.
BMC psychiatry - 26 Nov 2010
Lonsdorf Tina B, Rück Christian, Bergström Jan, Andersson Gerhard, Ohman Arne, Lindefors Nils, Schalling Martin
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BACKGROUND: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) represents a learning process leading to symptom relief and resulting in long-term changes in behavior. CBT for panic disorder is based on exposure and exposure-based processes can be studied in the laboratory as extinction of experimentally acquired fear responses. We have recently demonstrated that the ability to extinguish learned fear responses is associated with...
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