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Handbook of Anxiety and Fear, Volume 17 (Hardcover)
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Handbook of Anxiety and Fear, Volume 17 (Hardcover)
Series: Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience
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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 species, producing important similarities, along with
some systematic differences, in their human expression in
comparison to that of nonhuman mammals. These patterns are
described, with attention to both adaptive and maladaptive
components, and related to new understanding of neuroanatomic,
neurotransmitter, and genetic mechanisms. Although chapters in the
volume acknowledge important differences in views of fear and
anxiety stemming from animal vs. human research, the emphasis of
the volume is on a search for an integrated view that will
facilitate the use of animal models of anxiety to predict drug
response in people; on new technologies that will enable direct
evaluation of biological mechanisms in anxiety disorders; and on
strengthening the analysis of anxiety disorders as biological
phenomena.
- Integrates animal and human research on fear and anxiety
- Presents emerging and developing fields of human anxiety research
including imaging of anxiety disorders, the genetics of anxiety,
the pharmacology of anxiolysis, recent developments in
classification of anxiety disorders, linking these toanimal
work
- Covers basic research on innate and conditioned responses to
threat
- Presents work from the major laboratories, on fear learning and
extinction
- Reviews research on an array of neurotransmitter and
neuromodulator systems related to fear and anxiety
- Compares models, and neural systems for learned versus unlearned
responses to threat
- Relates the findings to the study, diagnostics, and treatment of
anxiety disorders, the major source of mental illness in modern
society (26 % of Americans are affected by anxiety disorders!)
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