Fear

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Author: Dr. Arne Ohman, Karolinska Institute and Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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Dr. Arne Ohman accepted the invitation on 15 January 2007 (self-imposed deadline: 15 February 2007).

This article will briefly cover: Defining fear and a description of its reponses components and response patterns. Fear stimuli. Fear and phobias. Fear and avoidance.

Invited by: Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia
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