Threat detection, precautionary responses, and anxiety disorders

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1075-1079

  Stein, Dan J ^a   Nesse, Randolph M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Evolutionary psychology; Precautionary responses; Threat detection

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFFECT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ASSOCIATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EVOLUTION; FEAR; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HAZARD; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; RITUAL; SAFETY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; THREAT;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79951579630     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.11.012     Document Type: Note

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