Screen LibraryHandbook of anxiety and fear /
This Handbook brings together and integrates comprehensively the core approaches to fear and anxiety. Its four sections: Animal models; neural systems; pharmacology; and clinical approaches, provide a range of perspectives that interact to produce new light on these important and sometimes dysfuncti...
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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Handbook of behavioral neuroscience ;
v. 17 |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/handbooks/15697339/17 |
| Summary: |
This Handbook brings together and integrates comprehensively the core approaches to fear and anxiety. Its four sections: Animal models; neural systems; pharmacology; and clinical approaches, provide a range of perspectives that interact to produce new light on these important and sometimes dysfunctional emotions. Fear and anxiety are analyzed as patterns that have evolved on the basis of their adaptive functioning in response to threat. These patterns are stringently selected, providing a close fit with environmental situations and events; they are highly conservative across mammalian specie |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xv, 517 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780080559520 0080559522 |
| Index Number: | RC531 |
| CLC: | R749.7 |
| Contents: | Section 1. Introduction -- Introduction to the Handbook on Fear and Anxiety -- Robert Blanchard, D. Caroline Blanchard, Guy Griebel and David Nutt -- Section 2. Animal models of Anxiety, Fear and Defense -- Theoretical approaches to the modeling of anxiety in animals -- Neil McNaughton and H lio Zangrossi Jr., -- The use of conditioning tasks to model fear and anxiety -- Michael S. Fanselow and Ravikumar Ponnusamy -- Extinction of fear: from animal studies to clinical interventions -- Karyn M. Myers and Michael Davis -- Defensive behaviors, fear and anxiety -- D. Caroline Blanchard and Rober |