Tom Beckers
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Yu K, Beckers T, Tuerlinckx F, Vanpaemel W, Zaman J
Behav Res Ther
. 2024 Oct;
183:104640.
PMID: 39388925
In this study we aimed to investigate gender differences in fear generalization tendencies in humans and, inspired by recent findings in animal research, examine whether any such differences could stem...
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Chalkia A, Vanhasbroeck N, Van Oudenhove L, Kindt M, Beckers T
Commun Psychol
. 2024 Sep;
1(1):24.
PMID: 39242722
Memory is susceptible to voluntary disruption, for instance, through directed forgetting manipulations, in which people are cued to intentionally "forget" information. Until now, directed forgetting has been primarily studied for...
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No evidence that post-training dopamine D2 receptor agonism affects fear generalization in male rats
Schroyens N, Vercammen L, Ozcan B, Ossorio Salazar V, Zaman J, De Bundel D, et al.
J Psychopharmacol
. 2024 Jul;
38(7):672-682.
PMID: 39068641
Background: The neurotransmitter dopamine plays an important role in the processing of emotional memories, and prior research suggests that dopaminergic manipulations immediately after fear learning can affect the retention and...
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Luyten L, Chalkia A, Schnell A, Ozcan B, Leng L, Schroyens N, et al.
J Anxiety Disord
. 2024 May;
104:102870.
PMID: 38733644
Exposure therapy is an evidence-based treatment option for anxiety-related disorders. Many patients also take medication that could, in principle, affect exposure therapy efficacy. Clinical and laboratory evidence indeed suggests that...
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Lopez-Moraga A, Luyten L, Beckers T
NPJ Sci Learn
. 2024 Feb;
9(1):11.
PMID: 38402221
Pervasive avoidance is one of the central symptoms of all anxiety-related disorders. In treatment, avoidance behaviors are typically discouraged because they are assumed to maintain anxiety. Yet, it is not...
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Leng L, Beckers T, Vervliet B
Emotion
. 2023 Nov;
24(3):539-550.
PMID: 37971851
Relief, a pleasurable experience, is often triggered by successful threat avoidance. Although relief is regarded as the positive reinforcer for avoidance behavior, its rewarding nature remains to be demonstrated. In...
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Hulsbosch A, Beckers T, De Meyer H, Danckaerts M, Van Liefferinge D, Tripp G, et al.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry
. 2023 Apr;
64(11):1631-1640.
PMID: 37040877
Background: Prominent theoretical accounts of attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD) hypothesize that reinforcement learning deficits underlie symptoms of ADHD. The Dynamic Developmental Theory and the Dopamine Transfer Deficit hypothesis assume impairments in both...
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Bach D, Sporrer J, Abend R, Beckers T, Dunsmoor J, Fullana M, et al.
Neurosci Biobehav Rev
. 2023 Mar;
148:105146.
PMID: 36990370
Fear conditioning is a widely used laboratory model to investigate learning, memory, and psychopathology across species. The quantification of learning in this paradigm is heterogeneous in humans and psychometric properties...
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Beckers T, Hermans D, Lange I, Luyten L, Scheveneels S, Vervliet B
Nat Rev Psychol
. 2023 Feb;
2(4):233-245.
PMID: 36811021
Fear is an adaptive emotion that mobilizes defensive resources upon confrontation with danger. However, fear becomes maladaptive and can give rise to the development of clinical anxiety when it exceeds...
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Leng L, Beckers T, Vervliet B
Behav Res Ther
. 2022 Nov;
159:104227.
PMID: 36423413
Anhedonia impairs various components of the pleasure cycle, including wanting, liking, and the learning of pleasure-related associations. While successfully controlling threats might be inherently pleasurable, it remains unclear whether anhedonia...