Mechanisms of exposure therapy: How neuroscience can improve psychological treatments for anxiety disorders
Mechanisms of exposure therapy: How neuroscience can improve psychological treatments for anxiety disorders
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cpr.2007.01.003
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发表时间：
2007-07-01
影响因子：
12.8
通讯作者：
McNally, Richard J.
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作者：
McNally, Richard J.
焦虑症的暴露疗法是临床心理学和精神病学的成功案例之一。尽管如此，仍有少数患者未能从现有治疗中获益。这一临床僵局促使人们重新尝试在神经、细胞、分子和行为层面上理解恐惧及其减少。本文的目的是提供一个暴露疗法的理论，包括情绪处理理论的最新发展，并讨论神经科学的见解，承诺改善心理治疗，减少病理性恐惧。(C)2007爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Exposure therapy for anxiety disorders has been one of success stories of clinical psychology and psychiatry. Nevertheless, a significant minority of patients fail to benefit from extant treatments. This clinical impasse is prompting renewed attempts to understand fear and its reduction at neural, cellular, and molecular as well as behavioral levels of analysis. The purpose of this article is to provide a review of theories of exposure therapy, including recent developments in emotional processing theory, and to discuss insights from neuroscience that promise to improve psychological treatments for reducing pathological fears. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.