TY - CHAP AU - Vitor de Castro Gomes AU - Carlos Eduardo Barroso Silva AU - J. Landeira-Fernandez ED - Vladimir Kalinin Y1 - 2011-08-01 PY - 2011 T1 - The Carioca High and Low Conditioned Freezing Lines: A New Animal Model of Generalized Anxiety Disorder N2 - During the last 2-3 decades drastic research progress in anxiety issues has been achieved. It concerns mostly the study of different subtypes of anxiety and their treatment. Nevertheless, the data on anxiety pathogenesis is less elaborated, although here a multidimensional approach exists. It includes neurochemistry, pathophysiology, endocrinology and psychopharmacology. Again, we are able to recognize the multifarious sense of anxiety, and the present collective monograph composed of 16 separate chapters depicting the different aspects of anxiety. Moreover, a great part of book includes chapters on neurochemistry, physiology and pharmacology of anxiety. The novel data on psychopathology and clinical signs of anxiety and its relationship with other psychopathological phenomena is also presented. The current monograph may represent an interest and be of practical use not only for clinicians but for a broad range of specialists, including biochemists, physiologists, pharmacologists and specialists in veterinary. BT - Anxiety Disorders SP - Ch. 7 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/23598 DO - 10.5772/23598 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -