Adaptations or pathologies? Long-term changes in brain and behavior after a single exposure to severe threat

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Wiedenmayer, Christoph P ^a,b  

^a Unit 40 ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Anxiety; Fear; Long term changes; One trial learning; Predation; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANXIETY; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEAR; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THREAT;

EID: 1242283866     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2003.09.005     Document Type: Review

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