Toward an account of clinical anxiety predicated on basic, neurally mapped mechanisms of Pavlovian fear-learning: The case for conditioned overgeneralization

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 257-263

  Lissek, Shmuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety disorders; fear potentiated startle; fMRI; neurobiology; Pavlovian fear conditioning; stimulus generalization

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; CONDITIONING; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEAR; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; LEARNING; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 84860643466     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.21922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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