Anxiolytic action on the behavioural inhibition system implies multiple types of arousal contribute to anxiety

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 161-176

  McNaughton, Neil ^a   Gray, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxiolytic; Arousal; Behavioural inhibition system; Generalized anxiety disorder; Hippocampus; Septo hippocampal system; Theta activity; Theta rhythm

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; AMOBARBITAL; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; DIAZEPAM;

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; THETA RHYTHM; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AROUSAL; FEEDBACK; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 0034597930     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0327(00)00344-X     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Effects of ethanol, benzodiazepines and serotonin compounds on ethopharmacological models of anxiety
2. Antipredator defensive behaviors in a visible burrow system
3. Anti-predator defense as models of animal fear and anxiety
4. Differentiation of anxiolytic and panicolytic drugs by effects on rat and mouse defense test batteries
5. Defense system psychopharmacology: An ethological approach to the pharmacology of fear and anxiety
6. Die Beeinflussung der 'Hippocampus-arousal-Reaktion' beim Kaninchen durch elektrische Reizung im Septum
7. The role of the amygdala in conditioned fear
8. The role of the amygdala in fear-potentiated startle: Implications for animal models of anxiety
9. Roles of the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in fear and anxiety measured with the acoustic startle reflex - Possible relevance to PTSD
10. Cholinergic activation of the electrocorticogram: An amygdaloid activating system
11. Neuroanatomy and neurotransmitter regulation of defensive behaviors and related emotions in mammals
12. Drug effects on fear and frustration: Possible limbic site of action of minor tranquillizers
13. Effect of minor tranquillisers on hippocampal theta rhythm mimicked by depletion of forebrain noradrenaline
14. Hippocampal electrical activity in arousal
15. Supramammillary cell firing and hippocampal rhythmical slow activity
16. Mapping the differential effects of procaine on frequency and amplitude of reticularly elicited hippocampal rhythmical slow activity
17. Emotion and the amygdala
18. Emotion, memory and the brain
19. Cholinergic relays in superior colliculus, substantia nigra and amygdala co-operate to gate theta activity
20. Contribution of synapses in the medial supramammillary nucleus to the frequency of hippocampal theta rhythm in freely moving rats
21. The neuropsychology and neuropharmacology of the dorsal ascending noradrenergic bundle - A review
22. Chlordiazepoxide, an anxiolytic benzodiazepine, impairs place navigation in rats
23. Buspirone produces a dose-related impairment in spatial navigation
24. Evidence of contextual fear after lesions of the hippocampus: A disruption of freezing but not fear-potentiated startle
25. The medial supramammillary nucleus, spatial learning and the frequency of hippocampal theta activity
26. On the functional significance of the circuit of Papez
27. Fear conditioning induces associative long-term potentiation in the amygdala
28. Type 2 theta in the guinea pig and the cat
29. The supramammillary nucleus: Is it necessary for the mediation of hippocampal theta rhythm?
30. Hippocampal electrical activity and voluntary movement in the rat
31. Cerebral activity and behavior: Control by central cholinergic and serotonergic systems
32. An analysis of ascending brain stem systems involved in hippocampal synchronization and desynchronization
33. Brainstem-diencephalo-septohippocampal systems controlling the theta rhythm of the hippocampus