Talk:Fear conditioning

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 7 January 2019 and 26 April 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Fariba14. Peer reviewers: Rcocker, Jherd25.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 21:07, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Neurojoe.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 21:13, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Merge with classical conditioning
I think this article and eyeblink conditioning being special cases of classical conditioning can be merged into classical conditioning.


 * Fear conditioning is a massive area of research with multiple applications and a vast literature. What determines whether something gets its own page? Will you put blocking into classical conditioning? Overshadowing? Sensory preconditioning? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.173.38.112 (talk) 15:35, 2 May 2007 (UTC).

The suggestion of merge was given becuase the article is quite short and in an earlier version, it was stated as a special case of classical conditioning, which is true. It would be nice that general articles such as classical conditioning give a flavor of what is all involved within its scope and direct readers to appropriate special articles if they be interested in reading further. Kpmiyapuram 15:52, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I am not an expert on this, but my feeling was that fear conditioning was clearly "separable" from other kinds of classical conditioning. I thought that it had been shown to have a separate neural substrate compared to some other kinds of classical conditioning (for example, http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/100/22/13087?ck=nck). If indeed it is a separate phenomena, then it should have its own page, rather than being part of the page on classical conditioning. Bayle Shanks 04:08, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Even though this discussion is quite old, I felt the urge to defend the separation of articles. Yes, fear conditioning is a type of classical conditioning but, as someone said above, it is a topic with massive research behind it. Its importance in contemporary neural science makes it worthwhile for Wikipedia to count with a full article to cover this topic. Accordingly, even though LeDoux's research has proved decisive in advancing the knowledge of the neurobiology behind fear conditioning, it is not to assume that LeDoux's work is the only one deserving at least a brief review here. In fact, I propose to review only relevant research by its own merits, leaving aside the matter of whose contribution has had the greatest impact. Working on topics by their merits, instead of working on authors, so to speak.--SchwarzeSchlange (talk) 18:14, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Revising page / article can stand on its own
Fear conditioning (FC), as mentioned previously, has considerable research behind it (almost a century's worth) — it should be separate from classical conditioning. To that end, I propose the following changes to include more recent advances in the field, and change the organization to make it more amenable to changes in the future: - http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(11)01207-4
 * 1) In Introduction, add citations to research on snails and humans for evidence
 * 2) Amygdala section is partially related to the amygdala — mostly about a proposed brain-wide mechanism by Joseph LeDoux about the neural constituents of FC. I will replace it with a broader section about seminal as well as recent studies on the amygdala's role in FC.
 * 3) Change Glutamate section name to "Molecular Mechanisms." There have certainly been studies implicating other molecules in fear conditioning, and this change will make it easier to accommodate that work in the same section.
 * 4) Contents of Glutamate section will be revised to more specifically describe the role of glutamate in FC, based on the cited work.
 * 5) I cannot speak to the molecular mechanisms involves in FC; however, a molecular biologist may perhaps consider adding to this section since it is quite scarce. Below is a pertinent article that may be of interest to such a person:
 * 1) Epigenetics page does not accurately describe the conclusions of the cited work. I will revise this paragraph to relate it back to FC.
 * 2) Across Development section indicates major changes across development in FC, but does not describe these changes. I will replace it with a section that describes changes in FC across development.

Neurojoe (talk) 16:35, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Changes Made by Fariba14
- Added a paragraph in the Lead section about areas in the brain responsible for fear memory and recall. - Added that amygdala is not exclusively the fear center of the brain under Amygdala section - Also added "The amygdala is involved in acquisition, storage, and expression of conditioned fear memory." in this section - Created two subheadings under Molecular Mechanisms - Added information on Intra-Amygdala circuit - Under "See Also", I linked to the wiki page on the Amygdala because a lot of information on this page could be useful in understanding fear conditioning

Sandbox: User:Fariba14/sandbox

Fariba14 (talk) 21:23, 24 April 2019 (UTC) Fariba14