“…Previous literature has mainly examined the effects of DCS on contextual or auditory conditioned fear, indicating that systemic and intra-BLA administrations of DCS may potentiate both extinction and reconsolidation (Ledgerwood, Richardson & Cranney, 2003;Ledgerwood et al, 2005;Lee et al, 2006;Toth et al, 2012;Walker, Ressler, Lu & Davis, 2002;Yamada, Zushida, Wada & Sekiguchi, 2009;Yamamoto et al, 2008). Also, DCS in the BLA facilitated the extinction of contextual fear with no effect on the extinction of conditioned taste aversion (Akirav, Segev, Motanis, & Maroun, 2009).…”