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acrophobia

Known as: fear of heights, HEIGHT FEAR, fear of high places 
National Institutes of Health

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Phobia, SpecificPhobic anxiety disorder
acarophobia

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
The development of stranger fear in infancy and toddlerhood: normative development, individual differences, antecedents, and outcomes.
Despite implications that stranger fear is an important aspect of developing behavioral inhibition, a known risk factor for… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Effects of recent exposure to a conditioned stimulus on extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning.
In six experiments we studied the effects of a single re-exposure to a conditioned stimulus (CS; "retrieval trial") prior to… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Does habituation matter? Emotional processing theory and exposure therapy for acrophobia.
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Rethinking the Fear Circuit: The Central Nucleus of the Amygdala Is Required for the Acquisition, Consolidation, and Expression of Pavlovian Fear Conditioning
In the standard model of pavlovian fear learning, sensory input from neutral and aversive stimuli converge in the lateral nucleus… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Long‐term potentiation as a substrate for memory: Evidence from studies of amygdaloid plasticity and Pavlovian fear conditioning
Recent reports have raised concerns about the ability of long‐term potentiation (LTP) to account for associative learning and… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Is the hippocampus necessary for contextual fear conditioning?
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Neurotoxic Basolateral Amygdala Lesions Impair Learning and Memory But Not the Performance of Conditional Fear in Rats
We examined the influence of extensive overtraining (75 trials) on the impact of neurotoxic basolateral amygdala (BLA) lesions on… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
The NMDA antagonist MK-801 blocks the extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning.
Five groups of rats were given Pavlovian fear conditioning. Four groups were then given extinction training. Prior to extinction… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Effectiveness of computer-generated (virtual reality) graded exposure in the treatment of acrophobia.
OBJECTIVE The authors' goal was to examine the efficacy of computer-generated (virtual reality) graded exposure in the treatment… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Scopolamine Selectively Disrupts the Acquisition of Contextual Fear Conditioning in Rats
Muscarinic cholinergic antagonism produces learning and memory deficits in a variety of hippocampal-dependent tasks. Hippocampal… 
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