The ecology of human fear: Survival optimization and the nervous system

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Mobbs, Dean ^a   Hagan, Cindy C ^a   Dalgleish, Tim ^a   Silston, Brian ^a   Prévost, Charlotte ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Appraisal; Defensive distance; Fear; Learning; Periaqueductal gray; Survival optimization system; Threat; Threat imminence continuum

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PERCEPTION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SAFETY; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM; THREAT;

EID: 84924372757     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00055     Document Type: Note

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