Handbook of anxiety and fear

This Handbook brings together and integrates comprehensively the core approaches to fear and anxiety. Its four sections: Animal models; neural systems; pharmacology; and clinical approaches, provide a range of perspectives that interact to produce new light on these important and sometimes dysfunct...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Blanchard, Robert J. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston ; Amsterdam : Academic Press 2008.
Colección:Handbook of behavioral neuroscience ; v. 17.
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Sumario:This Handbook brings together and integrates comprehensively the core approaches to fear and anxiety. Its four sections: Animal models; neural systems; pharmacology; and clinical approaches, provide a range of perspectives that interact to produce new light on these important and sometimes dysfunctional emotions. Fear and anxiety are analyzed as patterns that have evolved on the basis of their adaptive functioning in response to threat. These patterns are stringently selected, providing a close fit with environmental situations and events; they are highly conservative across mammalian speci
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (535 p.)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781281189523
9786611189525
9780080559520