Central Circulatory Control: Psychological Stress and the Defense Reaction

Central Regulation of Autonomic Functions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Carrive, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular responses; Conditioned fear; Defense reaction; Hypothalamus; Medulla; Psychological stress; Psychosocial stress; Sympathetic premotor neurons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898030693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306637.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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