Fear memory and its reconsolidation!

The attenuation of fear memories has gained popularity these days, and this is mainly because it could be used for the treatment of patients with anxiety, phobia, or PTSD. 

They usually encounter fearful and traumatic memories that are prolonged. 

Aversive reinforcements cause this type of memory. For clinical treatment of fear memories, a technique called exposure therapy is used, and in nonclinical conditioning, a method known as fear conditioning is used. 

Fear conditioning is when a neutral stimulus is paired with an aversive stimulus, and repeated exposure to this combination of neutral and aversive stimuli causes us to develop when we see the neutral stimulus itself.

In exposure therapy, they frequently subject you to your phobias until you reduce the effect of them on you. For example, if you have claustrophobia, then they might tell you to describe what it feels like to be in a closed space, and the next step after a few days would be putting you in a half-closed space, and then the therapy progresses like that. 

Different types of drugs were used to check whether there was a reduction in fear memories, and the results showed that the use of propranolol combined with memory reconsolidation had a decrease in fear memory. The following drug used was ketamine, but this did not show any reduction in fear memory, and this was due to the amnesic property that ketamine had. 

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