Behavioral correlates of anxiety

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 205-228

  Risbrough, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavior; Fear; Review; Startle; Translational

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; CITALOPRAM; DIAZEPAM; EGLUMETAD; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE;

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DARKNESS; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EMOTION; ENDOPHENOTYPE; EYE TRACKING; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR; HABITUATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STARTLE REFLEX; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BENZODIAZEPINES; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STARTLE REACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952276036     PISSN: 18663370     EISSN: 18663389     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2009_11     Document Type: Article

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