Neural Substrates of Unconditioned Fear, Defense, and Anxiety

Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 369-375

  Canteras, N S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agonistic behavior; Amygdala; Anxiety; Conditioned defensive behavior; Conspecific threats; Emotional learning; Fear; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Hypothalamus; Predatory threats; Unconditioned defensive behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872698256     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-045396-5.00094-4     Document Type: Chapter

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