Michael S Fanselow
Biographic Data
| ID | 5046875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael S Fanselow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael S |
| FAMILY NAME | Fanselow |
| SIGNATURE | FANSELOW M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3850-5966 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fear, defense, and emotion
We describe the close correspondence between predatory imminence continuum theory (PICT) and the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) for negative valence. RDoC's negative valence constructs relate aversively motivated behavioral reactions to various levels of threat. PICT divides defensive responses into distinct modes that vary along a continuum of the psychological closeness of predatory threat. While there is …
Warm hands, warm hearts
Recent work has demonstrated that social support figures seem to be particularly robust inhibitors of the Pavlovian fear response. Specifically, social support figures appear to act as prepared safety stimuli, stimuli that have played an important role in mammalian survival and are thus less easily associated with threat and more able to inhibit the fear response. Given some of the shared behavioral and neural consequences of both social support …
MotivationWe thank A. E. Fink for producing the Predatory Imminence Continuum artwork in Figure . We would like to thank M. Tinsley for his contribution to the first edition of this chapter. We would …
The goal of motivational theories is to account for variance in behavior that is not easily ascribed to learning or genetic factors. A functional behavior systems framework is described that defines individual systems in terms of evolutionary purpose, environmental cause, behavioral consequence, and the neural circuits that link and achieve these characteristics. The approach suggests that specific behavior patterns emerge as a consequence of pro…
Brief Flight to a Familiar Enclosure in Response to a Conditional Stimulus in Rats
The authors observed brief, directed movement to a familiar enclosure in rats to determine whether this behavior is part of a rat's defensive repertoire when exposed to a conditional-fear stimulus. In Experiment 1, upon exposure to the compound conditional-fear stimulus of tone and light, only rats that received paired presentations of the conditional stimuli and shock fled into a small, familiar enclosure where they then froze. Rats that had rec…
Amygdala and periaqueductal gray lesions only partially attenuate unconditional defensive responses in rats exposed to a cat
Ventral and dorsolateral regions of the midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG) control different stages of defensive behavior
Rats that receive nociceptive electric shock in an environment normally show the conditional fear-induced defensive response of freezing when returned to that environment. If several electric shocks are given in a massed manner they will condition less freezing than the same shocks given in a distributed manner. If a single shock is given immediately after placement in the chamber it does not support any conditioning, although the same shock give…
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Ventral and dorsolateral regions of the midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG) control different stages of defensive behavior
Rats that receive nociceptive electric shock in an environment normally show the conditional fear-induced defensive response of freezing when returned to that environment. If several electric shocks are given in a massed manner they will condition less freezing than the same shocks given in a distributed manner. If a single shock is given immediately after placement in the chamber it does not support any conditioning, although the same shock give…
Amygdala and periaqueductal gray lesions only partially attenuate unconditional defensive responses in rats exposed to a cat
Brief Flight to a Familiar Enclosure in Response to a Conditional Stimulus in Rats
The authors observed brief, directed movement to a familiar enclosure in rats to determine whether this behavior is part of a rat's defensive repertoire when exposed to a conditional-fear stimulus. In Experiment 1, upon exposure to the compound conditional-fear stimulus of tone and light, only rats that received paired presentations of the conditional stimuli and shock fled into a small, familiar enclosure where they then froze. Rats that had rec…
MotivationWe thank A. E. Fink for producing the Predatory Imminence Continuum artwork in Figure . We would like to thank M. Tinsley for his contribution to the first edition of this chapter. We would …
The goal of motivational theories is to account for variance in behavior that is not easily ascribed to learning or genetic factors. A functional behavior systems framework is described that defines individual systems in terms of evolutionary purpose, environmental cause, behavioral consequence, and the neural circuits that link and achieve these characteristics. The approach suggests that specific behavior patterns emerge as a consequence of pro…
Warm hands, warm hearts
Recent work has demonstrated that social support figures seem to be particularly robust inhibitors of the Pavlovian fear response. Specifically, social support figures appear to act as prepared safety stimuli, stimuli that have played an important role in mammalian survival and are thus less easily associated with threat and more able to inhibit the fear response. Given some of the shared behavioral and neural consequences of both social support …
Fear, defense, and emotion
We describe the close correspondence between predatory imminence continuum theory (PICT) and the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) for negative valence. RDoC's negative valence constructs relate aversively motivated behavioral reactions to various levels of threat. PICT divides defensive responses into distinct modes that vary along a continuum of the psychological closeness of predatory threat. While there is …
Psychology (6 works) · Neuroscience (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Stress Responses and Cortisol (4 works) · Amygdala (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (3 works) · Central nervous system (2 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Conditioning (2 works)