Individual differences in behavioral and cardiovascular reactivity to emotive stimuli and their relationship to cognitive flexibility in a primate model of trait anxiety

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Shiba, Yoshiro ^a,b   Santangelo, Andrea M ^a,b   Braesicke, Katrin ^a,b   Agustín Pavón, Carmen ^a,b,c   Cockcroft, Gemma ^a,b   Haggard, Mark ^a   Roberts, Angela C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Cognitive flexibility; Fear generalization; Marmoset; Prefrontal cortex; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALLITRICHINAE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERSEVERATION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE MODEL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAIT ANXIETY; VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84899154454     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00137     Document Type: Article

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