Andre Pittig

TL;DR: This compendium is intended to provide a basis for the development of a common procedural and terminology framework for the field of human fear conditioning and provides evidence‐based guidance for methodological decisions on study design, outcome measures, and analyses.

TL;DR: It is suggested that low baseline HF-HRV represents a common index for inhibitory deficits across PD, GAD, and SAD, which is consistent with the notion of autonomic inflexibility in anxiety disorders.

TL;DR: Overall, the extant literature supports a key role of aversive associative learning in the development and treatment of anxiety disorders, however, research targeting specific mechanisms such as extinction generalization and avoidance, the fragility of extinction, and moderating influences of individual differences pertinent to anxiety disorders is needed.

TL;DR: It is shown that a multilevel approach targeting individual, practical, and systemic barriers is necessary to optimize the dissemination of exposure-based interventions and that dissemination efforts may benefit from incorporating strategies such as modifying negative beliefs, adaptive stress management for therapists, or increasing practicability of Exposure- based interventions.

TL;DR: Behavioral strategies to enhance fear extinction may provide powerful clinical applications to further maximize the efficacy of exposure-based interventions and future replications, mechanistic examinations, and translational studies are warranted to verify long-term effects and naturalistic utility.