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.
Not exact matches
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.