Stressor controllability and learned helplessness research in the United States: Sensitization and fatigue processes

Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 44-58

  Minor, Thomas R ^a   Hunter, Aimee M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ADENOSINE; CORTICOSTERONE; SEROTONIN;

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; FATIGUE; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADENOSINE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; FATIGUE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; SEROTONIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036357183     PISSN: 1053881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02688805     Document Type: Article

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