Lifelong Effects of Hormones on Brain Development: Relationship to Health and Disease

Extreme Fear, Shyness, and Social Phobia

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  McEwen, Bruce S ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Defensive behavior; Fear; Humans; Neural circuits; Shyness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940500374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195118872.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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