Human defensive behaviors to threat scenarios show parallels to fear- and anxiety-related defense patterns of non-human mammals

• Published in: Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews Vol. 25; no. 7-8; pp. 761 - 770
• Main Authors: Caroline Blanchard, D, Hynd, April L, Minke, Karl A, Minemoto, Tiffanie, Blanchard, Robert J
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier 01.12.2001
• Subjects: Adult; Aggression - physiology; Anxiety - psychology; Behavior - physiology; Biological and medical sciences; Fear - psychology; Female; Humans; Male; Panic - physiology; Sex Characteristics

Defense patterns of rats and mice have been characterized in terms of the relationships between the type of defensive behavior (e.g. flight, freezing, hiding, defensive threat/attack, and risk assessment) and particular features of the eliciting (threat) stimulus and the situation in which it is enc...