Researchers from Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute test the behavioral effects of SSRIs on Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats, and propose a model by which acute SSRI administration alters neural activity in the amygdala and hippocampus in a way that reduces anxiety symptoms but impairs the ability to learn new responses anxiety. Results appear in this month’s Neuroscience.
Burghardt, N., Bauer, E.; Acute and Chronic Effects of SSRI Treatment on Fear Conditioning: Implications for Underlying Fear Circuits. Neuroscience. Online June 1, 2013
” alters neural activity in the amygdala and hippocampus”
Yes this is the kind of stuff shrinks learn. AND actually repeat. I’m really shocked
how they still manage to print these embarrassing “scientific findings”.
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