Aversive Stimulus Pairings Are an Unnecessary and Insufficient Cause of Pathological Anxiety

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¹ Laboratory of Biological Psychology, Department of Brain and Cognition, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Leuven Brain Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: bram.vervliet@kuleuven.be.
² Center for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Experimental, Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

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Bram Vervliet et al. Biol Psychiatry. 2020.

. 2020 May 15;87(10):870-871.

doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.03.006.

¹ Laboratory of Biological Psychology, Department of Brain and Cognition, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Leuven Brain Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: bram.vervliet@kuleuven.be.
² Center for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Experimental, Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

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