Heterogeneity in Signaled Active Avoidance: Substantive and Methodological Relevance of Diversity in Instrumental Defensive Responses to Threat Cues

Heterogeneity in Signaled Active Avoidance: Substantive and Methodological Relevance of Diversity in Instrumental Defensive Responses to Threat Cues

Individuals exposed to traumatic stressors follow divergent patterns including resilience and chronic stress. However, researchers utilizing animal models that examine threat responses typically use central tendency statistics that assume population homogeneity, potentially overlooking fundamental d...

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Main Authors: Isaac Robert Galatzer-Levy, Justin eMoscarello, Esther M. Blessing, JoAnna eKlein, Christopher eCain, Joseph eLeDoux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
Subjects:
Fear conditioning
heterogeneity
resilience
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Signaled Active Avoidance
Threat Conditioning
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00179/full

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