Coping with Danger: The Neural Basis of Defensive Behavior and Fearful Feelings

The sections in this article are:

1 Fear Conditioning

2 The Neural System Mediating Conditioned Fear Responses

2.1 Input Pathways

2.2 Output Pathways

3 Assessing Dangerous Environmental Contexts

4 Cortical Control of Fearful and Defensive Behavior

5 Fear Conditioning in Humans

6 Cellular Mechanisms Involved in Fear Conditioning

6.1 Electrophysiological Studies

6.2 Long-Term Potentiation

7 Stress and Fear Circuits

8 From Evolutionary Reaction to Cognitive Coping

9 Defensive Behaviors and Fearful Feelings

10 Summary