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Role Of Long Term Potentiation: Biological Factors Contributing To Phobia Flashcards

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What do patients with a specific phobia tend to overthink?

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Their phobic stimulus

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How does LTP play a significant role in the kind of messages that get sent?

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Strengthened each time the patient thinks about the phobic stimulus

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What happens when the synaptic connections that represent the fearful thoughts become strengthened

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Easier for pre and post neurons to connect again

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What happens when it becomes easier for pre and post neurons to connect again(2)

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Ignites the patients memory of the fear to which the stimulus is linked. Making it harder to forget

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