Arousal regulation, emotional flexibility, medial amygdala function, and the impact of early experience: Comments on the paper of Lewis et al.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1094, Issue , 2006, Pages 178-192

  Mayes, Linda C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal regulation; Emotional flexibility; Medial amygdala

Indexed keywords

OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ADRENERGIC NERVE CELL; AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIENCE; FEAR; FRUSTRATION; HUMAN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; ANIMAL; CONDITIONING; EMOTION; INFANT; NEWBORN; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROUSAL; COGNITION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEAR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; RECEPTORS, OPIOID;

EID: 34247881861     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1376.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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