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Recommended Literature on Extinction

Abulseoud OA, Miller JD, Wu JH, Choi DS, Holschneider DP. (2012): Ceftriaxone upregulates the glutamate transporter in medial prefrontal cortex and blocks reinstatement of methamphetamine seeking in a condition place preference paradigm. In: Brain Research 1456, S. 14–21. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.03.045.

Albring A, Wendt L, Benson S, Nissen S, Yavuz Z, Engler H, Witzke O, Schedlowski M. (2014): Preserving learned immunosuppressive placebo response: perspectives for clinical application. In: Clin Pharmacol Ther (96(2):247-55). DOI: 10.1038/clpt.2014.75.

Almeida-Corrêa S, Moulin TC, Carneiro CF, Gonçalves MM, Junqueira LS, Amaral OB (2015): Calcineurin inhibition blocks within-, but not between-session fear extinction in mice. In: Learn Mem (22(3):159-69). DOI: 10.1101/lm.037770.114.

Amano T, Unal CT, Pare D (2010): Synaptic correlates of fear extinction in the amygdala. In: Nat Neurosci. 13: 489 - 494.

Andero R, Ressler KJ (2012): Fear extinction and BDNF: translating animal models of PTSD to the clinic. In: Genes, Brain and Behavior 11 (5), S. 503–512. DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2012.00801.x.

André MA, Güntürkün O, Manahan-Vaughan D (2015): The metabotropic glutamate receptor, mGlu5, is required for extinction learning that occurs in the absence of a context change. In: Hippocampus (25(2):149-58). DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22359.

Antov MI, Melicherová U, Stockhorst U (2015): Cold pressor test improves fear extinction in healthy men. In: Psychoneuroendocrinology (54C:54-59). DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.01.009.

Antov MI, Melicherová U, Stockhorst U (2015): Cold pressor test improves fear extinction in healthy men. In: Psychoneuroendocrinology 54, S. 54–59. DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.01.009.

Antov MI, Stockhorst U (2014): Stress exposure prior to fear acquisition interacts with estradiol status to alter recall of fear extinction in humans. In: Psychoneuroendocrinology 49, S. 106–118. DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.06.022.

Apergis-Schoute AM, Schiller D, LeDoux JE, Phelps EA (2014): Extinction resistant changes in the human auditory association cortex following threat learning. In: Neurobiology of learning and memory 113, S. 109–114. DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2014.01.016.

Baker TW, Weisman RG, Beninger RJ (2012): Reinforcer devaluation by extinction depends on the food restriction protocol. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 124–129. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.02.007.

Baum WM (2012): Extinction as discrimination: The molar view. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 101–110. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.02.011.

Ben-Shahar O, Sacramento AD, Miller BW, Webb SM, Wroten MG, Silva HE (2013): Deficits in Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Group 1 Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Function Mediate Resistance to Extinction during Protracted Withdrawal from an Extensive History of Cocaine Self-Administration. In: The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 33 (2), S. 495‐506a. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3710-12.2013.

Benson S, Kattoor J, Kullmann JS, Hofmann S, Engler H, Forsting M, Gizewski ER, Elsenbruch S (2014): Towards understanding sex differences in visceral pain: enhanced reactivation of classically-conditioned fear in healthy women. In: Neurobiol Learn Mem (109:113-21). DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.12.014.

Bernier BE, Lacagnina AF, Drew MR. (2014): Potent attenuation of context fear by extinction training contiguous with acquisition. In: Learn Mem (22(1):31-8). DOI: 10.1101/lm.036673.114.

Bevins RA, Barrett ST, Polewan RJ, Pittenger ST, Swalve N, Charntikov, S (2012): Disentangling the nature of the nicotine stimulus. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 28–33. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.10.020.

Bos MGN, Beckers T, Kindt M (2014): Noradrenergic blockade of memory reconsolidation: a failure to reduce conditioned fear responding. In: Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience 8, S. 412. DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00412.

Bouton ME (2014): Why behavior change is difficult to sustain. In: Preventive Medicine.Bouton ME, Schepers ST. (2015): Renewal after the punishment of free operant behavior. In: J Exp Psychol Anim Learn Cogn (41(1):81-90). DOI: 10.1037/xan0000051.

Bouton ME, Todd TP (2014): A fundamental role for context in instrumental learning and extinction. In: Behavioural processes 104, S. 13–19. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.02.012.

Bouton ME, Winterbauer NE, Todd TP (2012): Relapse processes after the extinction of instrumental learning: Renewal, resurgence, and reacquisition. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 130–141. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.03.004.

Bouton ME, Westbrook RF, Corcoran KA, Maren S (2006): Contextual and temporal modulation of extinction: behavioral and biological mechanisms. In: Biol Psychiatry. 60: 352 – 360.

Bouton ME (2004) Context and behavioral processes in extinction. In: Learn Mem. 11: 485 – 494.

Britton JC, Evans TC, Hernandez MV (2014): Looking beyond Fear and Extinction Learning: Considering Novel Treatment Targets for Anxiety. In: Curr Behav Neurosci Rep (1(3):134-143).

Brown KL, Freeman JH (2014): Extinction, reacquisition, and rapid forgetting of eyeblink conditioning in developing rats. In: Learn Mem (21(12):696-708). DOI: 10.1101/lm.036103.114.

Burgos-Robles A, Vidal-Gonzalez I, Santini E, Quirk GJ (2007): Consolidation of fear extinction requires NMDA receptor-dependent bursting in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. In: Neuron. 53: 352-360.

Myskiw C, Izquierdo I, Furini CRG (2014): Modulation of the extinction of fear learning. In: Brain Res Bulletin.

Chang D, Lissek S, Ernst TM, Thürling M, Üngör M, Tegenthoff M, Ladd ME, Timmann D (2015): Cerebellar contribution to context processing in extinction learning and recall. In: Cerebellum. Doi: 10.1007/s12311-015-0670-z

Chang C, Berke JD, Maren S (2010) Singel-unit activity in the medial prefrontal cortex during immediate and delayed extinction of fear in rats. In: PLoS ONE. 5: e11971.

Cheung THC, Neisewander JL, Sanabria F (2012): Extinction under a behavioral microscope: Isolating the sources of decline in operant response rate. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 111–123. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.02.012.

Cho J, Deisseronth K, Boshakow VY (2013): Synaptic encoding of fear extinction in mPFC-amygdala circuits. In: Neuron. 80: 1491-1507.

Cover KK, Maeng LY, Lebrón-Milad K, Milad MR (2014): Mechanisms of estradiol in fear circuitry: implications for sex differences in psychopathology. In: Translational psychiatry 4, S. e422. DOI: 10.1038/tp.2014.67.

de Carvalho Myskiw J, Furini CR, Schmidt B, Ferreira F, Izquierdo I (2015): Extinction learning, which consists of the inhibition of retrieval, can be learned without retrieval. In: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (112(2):E230-3). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1423465112.

de Quervain DJF, Bentz D, Michael T, Bolt OC, Wiederhold BK, Margraf J, Wilhelm FH (2011): From the Cover: Glucocorticoids enhance extinction-based psychotherapy. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (16), S. 6621–6625. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018214108.

Delamater AR (2012): Issues in the extinction of specific stimulus-outcome associations in Pavlovian conditioning. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 9–19. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.03.006.

Delamater AR, Westbrook RF (2014): Psychological and neural mechanisms of experimental extinction: a selective review. In: Neurobiology of learning and memory 108, S. 38–51. DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.09.016.

Delamater AR (2004): Experimental extinction in Pavlovian conditioning: behavioral and neuroscience perspectives. In: Q J Exp Psychol B. 57: 757 – 771.

Den ML, Altmann SR, Richardson R (2014): A comparison of the short- and long-term effects of corticosterone exposure on extinction in adolescence versus adulthood. In: Behavioral neuroscience 128 (6), S. 722–735. DOI: 10.1037/bne0000022.

Denniston JC, Chang RC, Miller RR (2003): Massive extinction treatment attenuates the renewal effect . In: Learning and motivation. 34: 68-86.

Deschaux O, Koumar OC, Canini F, Moreau JL, Garcia R (2015): High-frequency stimulation of the hippocampus blocks fear learning sensitization and return of extinguished fear. In: Neuroscience (286:423-9). DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.12.001.

Dudai Y (2012): The Restless Engram: Consolidations Never End. In: Annual Review of Neuroscience 35 (1), S. 227–247. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-062111-150500.

Duits P, Cath DC, Lissek S, Hox JJ, Hamm AO, Engelhard IM, van den Hout MA, Baas JM. (2015): UPDATED META-ANALYSIS OF CLASSICAL FEAR CONDITIONING IN THE ANXIETY DISORDERS. In: Depress Anxiety. DOI: 10.1002/da.22353.

Ekaterina Likhtik RP (2015): Amygdala‐prefrontal interactions in (mal)adaptive learning. In: Trends in Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.12.007.

Falls WA (1998): Extinction: A review of theory and the evidence suggesting that memories are not erased with nonreinforcement. In O’Donohue, W(Ed.) learning and behavior therapy. Boston, Allyn & Bacon: 205-229.

Fani N, King TZ, Brewster R, Srivastava A, Stevens JS, Glover EM, Norrholm SD, Bradley B, Ressler KJ, Jovanovic T (2015): Fear-potentiated startle during extinction is associated with white matter microstructure and functional connectivity. In: Cortex (64:249-59). DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.11.006.

Fastenrath M, Coynel D, Spalek K, Milnik A, Gschwind, L, Roozendaal B (2014): Dynamic modulation of amygdala-hippocampal connectivity by emotional arousal. In: The Journal of neuroscience: the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 34 (42), S. 13935–13947. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0786-14.2014.

Finger EC, Mitchell, Derek GV, Jones M, Blair RJR (2008): Dissociable roles of medial orbitofrontal cortex in human operant extinction learning. In: Neuroimage. 43:748-755

Finsterwald C, Alberini, CM (2014): Stress and glucocorticoid receptor-dependent mechanisms in long-term memory: from adaptive responses to psychopathologies. In: Neurobiology of learning and memory 112, S. 17–29. DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.09.017.

Furini C, Myskiw J, Izquierdo I (2014): The learning of fear extinction. In: Neurosci Biobehav Rev (47:670-83).

Gallistel CR (2012): Extinction from a rationalist perspective. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 66–80. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.02.008.

Gallistel CR (2012): On rationalism and optimality: Responses to the Miller and Nevin Commentaries. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 87–88. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.02.015.

Gallistel CR (2012): On the evils of group averaging: Commentary on Nevin’s “Resistance to extinction and behavioral momentum”. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 98–99. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.02.013.

Galtress T, Marshall AT, Kirkpatrick K (2012): Motivation and timing: Clues for modeling the reward system. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 142–153. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.02.014.

Garfinkel SN, Abelson JL, King AP, Sripada RK, Wang X, Gaines LM, Liberzon I (2014): Impaired contextual modulation of memories in PTSD: an fMRI and psychophysiological study of extinction retention and fear renewal. In: The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 34 (40), S. 13435–13443. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4287-13.2014.

Godsil BP, Bontempi B, Mailliet F, Delagrange P, Spedding M, Jay TM (2015): Acute tianeptine treatment selectively modulates neuronal activation in the central nucleus of the amygdala and attenuates fear extinction. In: Mol Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1038/mp.2014.169.

Gottlieb DA, Prince EB (2012): Isolated effects of number of acquisition trials on extinction of rat conditioned approach behavior. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 34–48. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.03.010.

Gramsch C, Kattoor J, Icenhour A, Forsting M, Schedlowski M, Gizewski ER, Elsenbruch S (2014): Learning pain-related fear: neural mechanisms mediating rapid differential conditioning, extinction and reinstatement processes in human visceral pain. In: Neurobiol Learn Mem (116:36-45). DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2014.08.003.

Guhn A, Dresler T, Hahn T, Mühlberger A, Ströhle A, Deckert J, Herrmann MJ (2012): Medial Prefrontal Cortex Activity during the Extinction of Conditioned Fear: An Investigation Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. In: Neuropsychobiology 65 (4), S. 173–182. DOI: 10.1159/000337002.

Hadamitzky M, Börsche K, WirthT, Buck B, Beetz O, Christian U, Schniedewind B, Lückemann L, Güntürkün O, Engler H,  Schedlowski M (2015): Memory updating abrogates extinction of learned immunosuppression. In: Brain Behav Immun. Doi: 10.1016/l.bbi.2015.09.009.

Hadamitzky M, Engler H, Schedlowski M (2013): Learned immunosuppression: extinction, renewal, and the challenge of reconsolidation. In: J Neuroimmune Pharmacol (8(1):180-8). DOI: 10.1007/s11481-012-9388-6.

Hamacher-Dang TC, Engler H, Schedlowski M, Wolf OT (2013): Stress enhances the consolidation of extinction memory in a predictive learning task. In: Front Behav Neurosci (;7:108). DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00108.

Hamacher-Dang TC, Merz CJ, Wolf OT (2014): Stress following extinction learning leads to a context-dependent return of fear. In: Psychophysiology. DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12384.

Hamacher-Dang TC, Uengoer M, Wolf OT (2013): Stress impairs retrieval of extinguished and unextinguished associations in a predictive learning task. In: Neurobiol Learn Mem (104:1-8). DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.04.007.

Hartley CA, Gorun A, Reddan MC, Ramirez F, Phelps EA (2014): Stressor controllability modulates fear extinction in humans. In: Neurobiology of learning and memory 113, S. 149–156. DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.12.003.

Holt DJ, Boeke EA, Wolthusen RPF, Nasr S, Milad MR, Tootell RBH (2014): A parametric study of fear generalization to faces and non-face objects: relationship to discrimination thresholds. In: Frontiers in human neuroscience 8, S. 624. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00624.

Hupbach A, Dorskind JM (2014): Stress selectively affects the reactivated components of a declarative memory. In: Behavioral neuroscience 128 (5), S. 614–620. DOI: 10.1037/bne0000006.

Icenhour A, Langhorst J, Benson S, Schlamann M, Hampel S, Engler H, Forsting M, Elsenbruch S (2015): Neural circuitry of abdominal pain-related fear learning and reinstatement in irritable bowel syndrome. In: Neurogastroenterol Motil (27(1):114-27). DOI: 10.1111/nmo.12489.

Icenhour A, Kattoor J, Benson S, Boekstegers A, Schlamann M, Merz CJ, Forsting M, Elsenbruch S (2015): Neural circuits underlying effects of context on human pain-related fear extinction in a renewal paradigm. In: Hum Brain Mapp. 36: 3179-3193.

Johansen JP, Cain CK, Ostroff LE, LeDoux JE (2011): Molecular Mechanisms of Fear Learning and Memory. In: Cell 147 (3), S. 509–524. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.10.009.

Karpova NN, Pickenhagen A, Lindholm J, Tiraboschi E, Kulesskaya N, Agustsdottir A (2011): Fear Erasure in Mice Requires Synergy Between Antidepressant Drugs and Extinction Training. In: Science 334 (6063), S. 1731–1734. DOI: 10.1126/science.1214592.

Kashefi A, Rashidy-Pour A (2014): Effects of corticosterone on contextual fear consolidation in intact and ovariectomized female rats. In: Neurobiology of learning and memory 114, S. 236–241. DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2014.06.013.

Kattoor J, Gizewski ER, Kotsis V, Benson S, Gramsch C, Theysohn N, Maderwald S, Forsting M, Schedlowski M, Elsenbruch S (2013): Fear conditioning in an abdominal pain model: neural responses during associative learning and extinction in healthy subjects. In: PLoS One (8(2):e51149). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051149.

Kattoor J, Thürling M, Gizewski ER, Forsting M, Timmann D, Elsenbruch S (2014): Cerebellar contributions to different phases of visceral aversive extinction learning. In: Cerebellum (13(1):1-8). DOI: 10.1007/s12311-013-0512-9.

Kindt M, Soeter M, Sevenster D (2014): Disrupting reconsolidation of fear memory in humans by a noradrenergic β-blocker. In: J Vis Exp (94). DOI: 10.3791/52151.

Kleim B, Wilhelm FH, Temp I, Margraf J, Wiederhold BK, Rasch B (2015): Letter to the Editor: Simply avoiding reactivating fear memory after exposure therapy may help to consolidate fear extinction memory - a reply. In: Psychol Med (45(4):887-8). DOI: 10.1017/S0033291714001822.

Klucken T, Schweckendiek J, Merz CJ, Vaitl D, Stark R (2013): Dissociation of neuronal, electrodermal, and evaluative responses in disgust extinction. In: Behav Neurosci (127(3):380-6). DOI: 10.1037/a0032331.

Knapska E, Macias M, MikoszM, Nowak A, Owczarek D, Wawrzyniak M (2012): Functional anatomy of neural circuits regulating fear and extinction. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (42), S. 17093–17098. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1202087109.

Kuhn M, Höger N, Feige B, Blechert J, Normann C, Nissen C (2014): Fear extinction as a model for synaptic plasticity in major depressive disorder. In: PLoS One (9(12):e115280). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115280.

Kwapis JL, Jarome TJ, Helmstetter FJ (2014): The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in trace fear extinction. In: Learn Mem (22(1):39-46). DOI: 10.1101/lm.036517.114.

Laborda MA, Miller RR (2012): Reactivated memories compete for expression after Pavlovian extinction. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 20–27. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.01.012.

Lass-Hennemann J, Michael T (2014): Endogenous cortisol levels influence exposure therapy in spider phobia. In: Behaviour research and therapy 60, S. 39–45. DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2014.06.009.

Lattel K, Wood MA (2013): Epigenetics and persistent memory: implications for reconsolidation and silent extinction beyond the zero. In: Nat Neurosci.16:124-129.

Lattal KM, Lattal KA (2012): Facets of Pavlovian and operant extinction. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 1–8. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.03.009.

Lattal KM, Maughan DAK (2012): A parametric analysis of factors affecting acquisition and extinction of contextual fear in C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 49–57. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.03.008.

Lengersdorf D, Marks D, Uengoer M, Stüttgen MC, Güntürkün O (2015): Blocking NMDA-receptors in the pigeon’s “prefrontal” caudal nidopallium impairs appetitive extinction learning in a sign-tracking paradigm. In: Front Behav Neurosci. 9:85.

Lengersdorf D, Stüttgen MC, Uengoer M, Güntürkün O (2014): Transient inactivation of the pigeon hippocampus or the nidopallium caudolaterale during extinction learning impairs extinction retrieval in an appetitive conditioning paradigm. In: Behav Brain Res (265:93-100). DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.02.025.

Likhtik E, Paz R (2015): Amygdala-prefrontal interactions in (mal)adaptive learning. In: Trends Neurosci (pii: S0166-2236(14)00235-5). DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.12.007.

Lissek S, Glaubitz B, Güntürkün O, Tegenthoff M (2015): Noradrenergic stimulation modulates activation of extinction-related brain regions and enhances contextual extinction learning without affecting renewal. In: Front Behav Neurosci (;9:34). DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00034.

Lissek S, Glaubitz B, Uengoer M, Tegenthoff M (2013): Hippocampal activation during extinction learning predicts occurrence of the renewal effect in extinction recall. In: Neuroimage (81:131-43). DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.025.

Lissek S, van Meurs B (2014): Learning models of PTSD: Theoretical accounts and psychobiological evidence. In: Int J Psychophysiol (pii: S0167-8760(14)01647-X). DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2014.11.006.

Livneh U, Paz R (2012): Amygdala-prefrontal synchronization underlies resistance to extinction of aversive memories. In: Neuron 75 (1), S. 133–142. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.05.016.

Lommen MJJ, Engelhard IM, Sijbrandij M, van den Hout MA, Hermans D (2013): Pre-trauma individual differences in extinction learning predict posttraumatic stress. In: Behaviour research and therapy 51 (2). DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2012.11.004.

Lonsdorf TB, Haaker J, Kalisch R (2014): Long-term expression of human contextual fear and extinction memories involves amygdala, hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: a reinstatement study in two independent samples. In: Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 9 (12), S. 1973–1983. DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu018.

Lonsdorf TB, Haaker J, Fadai T, Kalisch R (2014): No evidence for enhanced extinction memory consolidation through noradrenergic reuptake inhibition-delayed memory test and reinstatement in human fMRI. In: Psychopharmacology 231 (9), S. 1949–1962. DOI: 10.1007/s00213-013-3338-8.

Lucantonio F, Kambhampati S, Haney RZ, Atalayer D, Rowland NE, Shaham Y, Schoenbaum G (2014): Effects of Prior Cocaine Versus Morphine or Heroin Self-Administration on Extinction Learning Driven by Overexpectation Versus Omission of Reward. In: Biol Psychiatry (pii: S0006-3223(14)00911-1). DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.11.017.

Luck CC, Lipp OV (2015): A potential pathway to the relapse of fear? Conditioned negative stimulus evaluation (but not physiological responding) resists instructed extinction. In: Behav Res Ther (66:18-31). DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2015.01.001.

Lucke S, Lachnit H, Koenig S, Uengoer M (2013): The informational value of contexts affects context-dependent learning. In: Learn Behav (41(3):285-97). DOI: 10.3758/s13420-013-0104-z.

Lucke S, Lachnit H, Stüttgen MC, Uengoer M (2014): The impact of context relevance during extinction learning. In: Learn Behav (42(3):256-69). DOI: 10.3758/s13420-014-0143-0.

Maren S, Holmes A (2015): Stress and fear extinction. In: Nueropsychopharmacology.

Maren S (2014): Fear of the unexpected: hippocampus mediates novelty-induced return of extinguished fear in rats. In: Neurobiology of learning and memory 108, S. 88–95. DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.06.004.

Maren S (2014): Out with the old and in with the new: Synaptic mechanisms of extinction in the amygdala. In: Brain Research.

Maren S, Hobin JA (2007): Hippocampal regulation of context-dependent neuronal activity in the lateral amygdala. In: Learn Mem. 14:318-324.

Maren S, Chang C (2006): Recent fear is resistant to extinction. In: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103:18020-18025

Marks WN, Fenton EY, Guskjolen AJ, Kalynchuk LE (2015): The effect of chronic corticosterone on fear learning and memory depends on dose and the testing protocol. In: Neuroscience (289:324-33). DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.01.011.

Maroun M (2012): Medial Prefrontal Cortex: Multiple Roles in Fear and Extinction. In: The Neuroscientist: a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry. DOI: 10.1177/1073858412464527.

Maroun M, Kavushansky A, Holmes A, Wellman C, Motanis H (2012): Enhanced Extinction of Aversive Memories by High-Frequency Stimulation of the Rat Infralimbic Cortex. In: PLoS One 7 (5), S. e35853. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035853.

Martínez KG, Franco-Chaves JA, Milad MR, Quirk GJ (2014): Ethnic differences in physiological responses to fear conditioned stimuli. In: PLoS One (9(12):e114977). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114977.

Matsuda S, Matsuzawa D, Ishii D, Tomizawa H, Shimizu E (2014): Effects of memory age and interval of fear extinction sessions on contextual fear extinction. In: Neuroscience letters 578, S. 139–142. DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.06.054.

Meir Drexler S,  Merz CJ, Hamacher Dang TC, Tengenthoff M, Wolf OT (2015): Effects of cortisol on reconsolidation of reactivated fear memories. In: Neuropsychopharmacology. Doi 10.1038/npp.2015.160

Meir Drexler S, Merz CJ, Hamacher-Dang TC, Marquardt V, Fritsch N, Otto T, Wolf OT (2014): Effects of postretrieval-extinction learning on return of contextually controlled cued fear. In: Behavioral Neurosci (;128(4):474-81). DOI: 10.1037/a0036688.

Mendoza J, Sanio C, Chaudhri N (2015): Inactivating the infralimbic but not prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex facilitates the extinction of appetitive Pavlovian conditioning in Long-Evans rats. In: Neurobiol Learn Mem (118:198-208). DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2014.12.006.

Merz CJ, Hamacher-Dang TC, Wolf OT(2014): Exposure to stress attenuates fear retrieval in healthy men. In: Psychoneuroendocrinology (;41:89-96). DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.12.009.

Merz CJ, Hermann A, Stark R, Wolf OT (2014): Cortisol modifies extinction learning of recently acquired fear in men. In: Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci (9(9):1426-34). DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst137.

Meuret AE, Trueba AF, Abelson JL, Liberzon I, Auchus R, Bhaskara L, Ritz T, Rosenfield D (2015): High cortisol awakening response and cortisol levels moderate exposure-based psychotherapy success. In: Psychoneuroendocrinology (51:331-40). DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.10.008.

Milad MR, Quirk GJ (2012): Fear extinction as amodel for translational neuroscience: ten years of progress. In: Annu Rev Psychol. 63:129-151.

Milad MR, Quirk GJ (2002): Neurons in medial prefrontal cortex signal memory for fear extinction. In: Nature. 420:70-74.

Miller RR (2012): An assessment of Gallistel’s (2012) rationalistic account of extinction phenomena. In: Behavioural processes 90 (1), S. 81–83. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.02.005.

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