Editorial: Avoidance: From basic science to psychopathology

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue FEB, 2016, Pages

  Servatius, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models of mental disorders; Anxiety disorders; Association learning; Avoidance learning; Depressive disorder; Escape; Expectancy; Research domain criteria

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; AUTISM; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CEREBELLUM; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EDITORIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPIGENETICS; FEAR; HABENULA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES SPECIFIC DEFENSE REACTION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STRESS; SUICIDE;

EID: 84960084534     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00015     Document Type: Editorial

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