Learned helplessness at fifty: Insights from neuroscience

Psychological Review

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 349-367

  Maier, Steven F ^a   Seligman, Martin E P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Dorsal raphe nucleus; Hope; Learned helplessness; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; LEARNING; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LEARNING; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEROTONIN;

EID: 84975730905     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: 19391471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000033     Document Type: Article

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