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Handbook 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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blanchard, Robert J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Academic Press, 2008.
Colección:Handbook of behavioral neuroscience ; v. 17.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 �Hlio 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 Robert Blanchard
  • Unconditioned models of fear and anxiety
  • Yoav Litvin, Nathan S. Pentkowski, Roger L. Pobbe, D. Caroline Blanchard and Robert J. Blanchard
  • Section 3. Neural Systems for Anxiety, Fear, and Defense
  • Brain mechanisms of Pavlovian and instrumental aversive conditioning
  • Christopher K. Cain and Joseph E. LeDoux
  • Neural systems activated in response to predators and partial predator stimuli
  • Newton Sabino Canteras
  • A behavioral and neural systems comparison of unconditioned and conditioned defensive behavior
  • Newton S. Canteras and D. Caroline Blanchard
  • Section 4. The Pharmacology of Anxiety, Fear, and Defense
  • Peptide receptor ligands to treat anxiety disorders
  • Thomas Steckler
  • Subtype-selective GABAA/benzodiazepine receptor ligands for the treatment of anxiety disorders
  • James K. Rowlett
  • Modulation of anxiety behaviors by 5-HT-interacting drugs
  • Francisco Silveira Guima�res, Antonio �Pdua Carobrez and Frederico Guilherme Graeff
  • The glutamatergic system as a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of anxiety disorders
  • John F. Cryan and Kumlesh K. Dev
  • The endocannabinoid system and anxiety responses
  • Marco Bortolato and Daniele Piomelli
  • Genetic factors underlying anxiety-behaviour: a meta-analysis of rodent studies involving targeted mutations of neurotransmission genes
  • Catherine Belzung, Samuel Leman and Guy Griebel
  • The pharmacology of anxiolysis
  • Andrew Holmes
  • Section 5. Handbook of Fear and Anxiety:
  • Clinical and Experimental Considerations
  • Phenomenology of anxiety disorders
  • David J. Nutt, Berta Garcia de Miguel and Simon J.C. Davies
  • How effective are current drug treatments for anxiety disorders, and how could they be improved?
  • David S. Baldwin and Matthew J. Garner
  • Experimental models: panic and fear
  • Gabriel Esquivel, Koen Schruers and Eric Griez
  • Principles and findings from human imaging of anxiety disorders
  • Andrea L. Malizia and David Nutt
  • Stress hormones and anxiety disorders
  • Elizabeth A. Young, James L. Abelson and Israel Liberzon
  • The genetics of human anxiety disorders
  • Eduard Maron, John M. Hettema and Jakov Shlik.