Handbook of Anxiety and Fear
( Volume 17 )
Publication series ：Volume 17
Author： Blanchard D. Caroline;Griebel Guy;Nutt David J
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9780080559520
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780444530653
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780444530653
Subject： R749.7 neurosis
Language： ENG
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Description
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
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