Fight, Flight, or Freeze? The Answer May Depend on Your Sex

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 51-53

  Jones, Carolyn E ^a   Monfils, Marie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Escape; Fear conditioning; Females; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

BODY MOVEMENT; FEAR CONDITIONING TEST; FIGHTING; FLIGHT; GENDER; NONHUMAN; PAVLOVIAN FEAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANIMAL; FEAR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE;

ANIMALS; FEAR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE;

EID: 84958909666     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2015.12.010     Document Type: Short Survey

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