Facts about Fear Conditioning

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   Fear conditioning serves as a foundational animal model for studying post-traumatic stress disorder, as both involve persistent learned associations between cues and threat.

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   Contextual fear conditioning depends heavily on the hippocampus, which encodes the environmental context associated with an aversive experience.

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   Extinction of fear conditioning occurs when the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the aversive stimulus, gradually reducing the fear response.

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   In fear conditioning, a neutral conditioned stimulus becomes capable of eliciting fear responses after repeated pairing with an aversive unconditioned stimulus.

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   The amygdala is the brain region most critically involved in fear conditioning, associating neutral stimuli with aversive outcomes.

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