Animal defense strategies and anxiety disorders

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Main Author: Rosana Shuhama
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contents Animal defense strategies and anxiety disorders Rosana Shuhama Sônia R. Loureiro Cristina M. Del-Ben Frederico G. Graeff Multidisciplinaria (Ciencias Naturales y Exactas) basic emotions anxiety disorders defense strategies Anxiety disorders are classified according to symptoms, time course and therapeutic response. Concurrently, theexperimental analysis of defensive behavior has identified three strategies of defense that are shared by different animalspecies, triggered by situations of potential, distal and proximal predatory threat, respectively. The first one consistsof cautious exploration of the environment for risk assessment. The associated emotion is supposed to be anxietyand its pathology, Generalized Anxiety Disorder. The second is manifested by oriented escape or by behavioralinhibition, being related to normal fear and to Specific Phobias, as disorders. The third consists of disorganized flightor complete immobility, associated to dread and Panic Disorder. Among conspecific interactions lies a forth defensestrategy, submission, that has been related to normal social anxiety (shyness) and to Social Anxiety Disorder. Inturn, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder do not seem to be directly related to innatedefense reactions. Such evolutionary approach offers a reliable theoretical framework for the study of the biologicaldeterminants of anxiety disorders, and a sound basis for psychiatric classification. 2007 artículo científico 0001-3765 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=32779112 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=327 Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências application/pdf Academia Brasileira de Ciências Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.79
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publishDate 2007
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spellingShingle Animal defense strategies and anxiety disorders
Rosana Shuhama
Multidisciplinaria (Ciencias Naturales y Exactas)
basic emotions
anxiety disorders
defense strategies
Animal defense strategies and anxiety disorders Rosana Shuhama Sônia R. Loureiro Cristina M. Del-Ben Frederico G. Graeff Multidisciplinaria (Ciencias Naturales y Exactas) basic emotions anxiety disorders defense strategies Anxiety disorders are classified according to symptoms, time course and therapeutic response. Concurrently, theexperimental analysis of defensive behavior has identified three strategies of defense that are shared by different animalspecies, triggered by situations of potential, distal and proximal predatory threat, respectively. The first one consistsof cautious exploration of the environment for risk assessment. The associated emotion is supposed to be anxietyand its pathology, Generalized Anxiety Disorder. The second is manifested by oriented escape or by behavioralinhibition, being related to normal fear and to Specific Phobias, as disorders. The third consists of disorganized flightor complete immobility, associated to dread and Panic Disorder. Among conspecific interactions lies a forth defensestrategy, submission, that has been related to normal social anxiety (shyness) and to Social Anxiety Disorder. Inturn, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder do not seem to be directly related to innatedefense reactions. Such evolutionary approach offers a reliable theoretical framework for the study of the biologicaldeterminants of anxiety disorders, and a sound basis for psychiatric classification. 2007 artículo científico 0001-3765 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=32779112 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=327 Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências application/pdf Academia Brasileira de Ciências Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.79
title Animal defense strategies and anxiety disorders
topic Multidisciplinaria (Ciencias Naturales y Exactas)
basic emotions
anxiety disorders
defense strategies
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=32779112