The role of carbonic anhydrases in extinction of contextual fear memory

Significance Disruption of memories of stressful events may trigger maladaptive responses that are distinctive features of obsessive-compulsive disorders, phobias, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and generalized anxiety. Drugs available to alleviate these disorders have minimal or inconsistent efficacy. The gold standard treatment, exposure therapy, is based on extinction, which refers to a new memory trace inhibiting original memory...