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fear extinction: a standalone construct

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Neuroscience

the learned decline of conditioned fear when a cue is no longer followed by threat, stored as a new inhibitory memory involving medial prefrontal cortex.

In neuroscience, fear extinction refers to the learned decline of conditioned fear when a cue is no longer followed by threat, stored as a new inhibitory memory involving medial prefrontal cortex. This meaning comes from Milad (2002) in Nature.[1]

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References

Milad, M. R., & Quirk, G. J. (2002). Neurons in medial prefrontal cortex signal memory for fear extinction. Nature, 420(6911), 70-74. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01138

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