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From: Investigating the efficacy of the reminder-extinction procedure to disrupt contextual threat memories in humans using immersive Virtual Reality

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An isolated reminder before extinction did not influence retention of valence and arousal ratings. Context conditioning resulted in acquisition of subjective threat, which was subsequently extinguished, and re-extinguished after the reinstatement test under extinction conditions. Bar plots reflecting mean valence and arousal ratings before acquisition, after acquisition, after extinction and after reinstatement of context conditioning for the threat (CTX+, red) and safe context (CTX−, blue) in the Reminder-Extinction (solid bars) and Extinction (open bars) groups. Context conditioning resulted in (a) lower valence ratings and (b) higher arousal ratings. Error bars = s.e.m., adjacent dots represent jittered individual data-points. **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.

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