"Extinction training" refers to a process where undesirable behaviors or conditioned responses are gradually reduced or eliminated through a planned procedure or practice.
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The Ferber method departs from
extinction training in one key respect: It permits parents to check on their children — but only briefly and according to a strict schedule.
«Much
of extinction training — the process of learning that a fearful cue is no longer fearful — in adult rodents closely parallels aspects of exposure - based psychotherapy for humans, where an exposure to a stimulus that was associated with trauma shares many aspects of the initial traumatic memories.»
Advocates of graduated
extinction training note that no studies yet have demonstrated that the Ferber method harms children over 6 months old.
Two weeks after the transplants, the mice were conditioned to fear a sound, freezing whenever they heard it, and then
given extinction training.
To further determine if manipulating fkbp5 could prevent the abnormal paths of extinction learning, Galatzer - Levy looked at data taken from a mouse study in which they were fear conditioned, given doses of dexamethasone or a placebo, and then put through
fear extinction training the following day.
Those who had
extinction training 10 minutes after memory retrieval showed reduced craving when tested up to six months later.
Metabolic activity (green and red colors) in the hippocampus (white dotted line) of animals that underwent
extinction training in combination with HDACis (right) is significantly higher than in animals that underwent extinction training alone (left).
When they transplanted embryonic brain cells into mice that had already been conditioned to fear a sound, the researchers found these mice were significantly more responsive to
extinction training.
The researchers then began the process of fear -
extinction training, in which they made the sound but did not apply the shock.
Extinction training is the removal of a desired event or reward as a consequence to a behavior.