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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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Kindt, M., Soeter, M., Sevenster, D. Disrupting Reconsolidation of Fear Memory in Humans by a Noradrenergic β-Blocker. J. Vis. Exp. (94), e52151, doi:10.3791/52151 (2014).
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