Renewal in human fear conditioning : A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Renewal is a 'return of fear' manipulation in human fear conditioning to investigate learning processes underlying anxiety and trauma. Even though renewal paradigms are widely used, no study has compared the strength of different renewal paradigms. We conduct a systematic review (N = 80) and meta-analysis (N = 23) of human fear conditioning studies assessing renewal. Our analysis shows that the classic ABA design is the most effective paradigm, compared to ABC and ABBA designs. We present evidence that conducting extinction in multiple contexts and increasing the similarity between acquisition and extinction contexts reduce renewal. Furthermore, we show that additional cues can be used as safety and 'protection from extinction' cues. The review shows that alcohol weakens the extinction process and that older adults appear less sensitive to context changes and thus show less renewal. The large variability in approaches to study renewal in humans suggests that standardisation of fear conditioning procedures across laboratories would be of great benefit to the field.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:159

Enthalten in:

Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews - 159(2024) vom: 29. März, Seite 105606

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Olsson, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Lipp, Ottmar V [VerfasserIn]
Ney, Luke J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Context dependent learning
Human fear conditioning
Journal Article
Meta-Analysis
Renewal
Return of fear
Review
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 20.03.2024

Date Revised 20.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105606

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369210301