Martínez MM, López GDN

Language: Spanish
References: 18
Page: 101-107
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ABSTRACT

Anxiety disorders are the most frequent psychiatric disturbances throughout our lives, are mainly characterized by excessive fear of situations that pose no real danger.
These conditions are resource health and are a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The neurobiological basis of anxiety disorders is in the alterations of brain circuitry of fear. This circuit is the most studied since Pavlov, now with brain imaging fMRI and PET.

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