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Stress helps unlearn fear

May 9, 2018 by

Stress can have a positive effect on extinction learning, which causes previously learned associations to dissolve. According to the findings of cognitive psychologists, stress causes extinction learning to occur independent of context. This might prove useful for example in therapies for anxiety disorders.

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