Social support and fear-inhibition: an examination of underlying neural mechanisms.

ABSTRACT: Recent work has demonstrated that reminders of those we are closest to have a unique combination of effects on fear learning and represent a new category of fear inhibitors, termed prepared fear suppressors. Notably, social-support-figure images have been shown to resist becoming associated with fear, suppress conditional-fear-responding and lead to long-term fear reduction. Due to the novelty of this category, understanding the underlying neural mechanisms that support these unique abilities of social-support-reminders has yet to be investigated. Here, we examined the neural correlates that enable social-support-reminders to resist becoming associated with fear during a retardation-of-acquisition test. We found that social-support-figure-images (vs stranger-images) were less readily assoc

SUBMITTER: Hornstein EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10868130 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature