Avoidance learning

An avoidance response is a natural adaptive behavior performed in response to danger. Excessive avoidance has been suggested to contribute to anxiety disorders, leading psychologists and neuroscientists to study how avoidance behaviors are learned using rat or mouse models.^[1] Avoidance learning is a type of operant conditioning (also known as instrumental conditioning).

^ LeDoux, J. E.; Moscarello, J.; Sears, R.; Campese, V. (January 2017). "The birth, death and resurrection of avoidance: a reconceptualization of a troubled paradigm". Molecular Psychiatry. 22 (1): 24–36. doi:10.1038/mp.2016.166. ISSN 1476-5578. PMC 5173426. PMID 27752080.

[:0-1] LeDoux, J. E.; Moscarello, J.; Sears, R.; Campese, V. (January 2017). "The birth, death and resurrection of avoidance: a reconceptualization of a troubled paradigm". Molecular Psychiatry. 22 (1): 24–36. doi:10.1038/mp.2016.166. ISSN 1476-5578. PMC 5173426. PMID 27752080.

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