Electric foot shock stress: A useful tool in neuropsychiatric studies

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 655-677

  Bali, Anjana ^a   Jaggi, Amteshwar Singh ^a  

^a PUNJABI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

anxiety; depression; electric foot shock; PTSD; stress

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN REGION; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONING; CONFLICT TEST; DEPRESSION; ELECTRIC FOOT SHOCK STRESS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FACE VALIDITY; FEAR; FEAR CONDITIONING; FOOTSHOCK; HOLE BOARD TEST; HUMAN; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NEUROENDOCRINE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; STARTLE REFLEX; VOCALIZATION; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTRIC SHOCK; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; HUMANS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84948779464     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/revneuro-2015-0015     Document Type: Review

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