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Perturber reconsolidation de la mémoire peur chez les humains par un β-noradrénergique Blocker
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Disrupting Reconsolidation of Fear Memory in Humans by a Noradrenergic β-Blocker

Perturber reconsolidation de la mémoire peur chez les humains par un β-noradrénergique Blocker

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December 18, 2014

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08:32 min
December 18, 2014

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Disrupting reconsolidation is a promising approach to dampen the behavioral expression of fear memory in patients with anxiety disorders or posttraumatic stress disorder. In a series of human fear conditioning studies we showed that disrupting reconsolidation by the noradrenergic β-blocker propranolol is very effective in erasing conditioned fear responding.

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