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Randi Heller
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 3
Citations - 533
Randi Heller is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anxiety & Moro reflex. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 471 citations.
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Overgeneralization of Conditioned Fear as a Pathogenic Marker of Panic Disorder
Shmuel Lissek,Stephanie J. Rabin,Randi Heller,David Lukenbaugh,Marilla Geraci,Daniel S. Pine,Christian Grillon +6 more
TL;DR: A laboratory-based assessment of this potential correlate of panic disorder by testing the degree to which panic patients and healthy subjects manifest generalization of conditioned fear demonstrates a marked proclivity toward fear overgeneralization in panic disorder.
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Becoming the center of attention in social anxiety disorder: startle reactivity to a virtual audience during speech anticipation.
TL;DR: The VR environment is sufficiently realistic to provoke fear and anxiety in individuals highly vulnerable to socially threatening situations and individuals with SAD showed potentiated startle, indicative of a strong phasic fear response.
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Acute hydrocortisone treatment increases anxiety but not fear in healthy volunteers: a fear-potentiated startle study.
Christian Grillon,Randi Heller,Elizabeth Hirschhorn,Mitchel A. Kling,Daniel S. Pine,Jay Schulkin,Meena Vythilingam +6 more
TL;DR: Hydrocortisone administration in humans selectively increases anxiety but not fear, and may increase anxiety via sensitization of corticotrophin-releasing hormones in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.