Secure attachment priming protects against relapse of fear in Young adults

Abstract Previous studies have shown that activating the attachment system attenuates fear learning. This study aimed to explore whether attachment priming can also impact on fear extinction processes, which underpin the management of anxiety disorders. In this study, 81 participants underwent a sta...

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Autores principales:	Metaxia Toumbelekis, Belinda J. Liddell, Richard A. Bryant
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Publicado:	Nature Publishing Group 2021
Materias:	Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry RC321-571
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:125c1a01e1164e2b8d85e767e646d7cf2021-11-14T12:11:19ZSecure attachment priming protects against relapse of fear in Young adults10.1038/s41398-021-01715-x2158-3188https://doaj.org/article/125c1a01e1164e2b8d85e767e646d7cf2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01715-xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2158-3188Abstract Previous studies have shown that activating the attachment system attenuates fear learning. This study aimed to explore whether attachment priming can also impact on fear extinction processes, which underpin the management of anxiety disorders. In this study, 81 participants underwent a standard fear conditioning and extinction protocol on day 1 and returned 24 h later for an extinction recall and reinstatement test. Half the participants were primed to imagine their closest attachment figure prior to undergoing extinction training, while the other half were instructed to imagine a positive situation. Fear-potentiated startle and subjective expectancies of shock were measured as the primary indicators of fear. Attachment priming led to less relapse during the reinstatement test at the physiological but not subjective levels. These findings have translational potential to imply that activating awareness of attachment figures might augment long-term safety memories acquired in existing treatments to reduce relapse of fear.Metaxia ToumbelekisBelinda J. LiddellRichard A. BryantNature Publishing GrouparticleNeurosciences. Biological psychiatry. NeuropsychiatryRC321-571ENTranslational Psychiatry, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2021)
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description	Abstract Previous studies have shown that activating the attachment system attenuates fear learning. This study aimed to explore whether attachment priming can also impact on fear extinction processes, which underpin the management of anxiety disorders. In this study, 81 participants underwent a standard fear conditioning and extinction protocol on day 1 and returned 24 h later for an extinction recall and reinstatement test. Half the participants were primed to imagine their closest attachment figure prior to undergoing extinction training, while the other half were instructed to imagine a positive situation. Fear-potentiated startle and subjective expectancies of shock were measured as the primary indicators of fear. Attachment priming led to less relapse during the reinstatement test at the physiological but not subjective levels. These findings have translational potential to imply that activating awareness of attachment figures might augment long-term safety memories acquired in existing treatments to reduce relapse of fear.
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title	Secure attachment priming protects against relapse of fear in Young adults
title_short	Secure attachment priming protects against relapse of fear in Young adults
title_full	Secure attachment priming protects against relapse of fear in Young adults
title_fullStr	Secure attachment priming protects against relapse of fear in Young adults
title_full_unstemmed	Secure attachment priming protects against relapse of fear in Young adults
title_sort	secure attachment priming protects against relapse of fear in young adults
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Secure attachment priming protects against relapse of fear in Young adults

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