Animal models for anxiety and anxiety disorders - Selected models and approaches to study individual differences

Abstract. Animal models of anxiety play a critical role in our understanding of the neurobiopsychological mechanisms underlying anxiety and ...

When fear and anxiety derail: The pathology of the human defense system

Abstract. From the perspective of Biological Psychology, fear and anxiety are emotional states that activate a defense system in the mammalian brain. This defense system regulates the ...

Psychoendocrinology of anxiety disorders

Abstract. Existing literature on the etiology, symptomatology, and course of anxiety disorders shows a broad variety of concepts and empirical results. One major field of psychobiological research as fear and ...

Neural correlates of the processing of threat-relevant stimuli in phobics and healthy subjects

Abstract. The increasing use of neuroimaging techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, resulted in numerous new findings, which extended the ...