"Scared stiff": Catatonia as an evolutionary-based fear response

Psychological Review

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 984-1002

  Moskowitz, Andrew K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CATATONIA; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEAR; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATATONIA; ESCAPE REACTION; EVOLUTION; FEAR; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

EID: 5644271675     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.111.4.984     Document Type: Review

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