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Tier 4 — Narrative / commentaryPeer-reviewedConventional

Understanding anxiety symptoms as aberrant defensive responding along the threat imminence continuum

Rany Abend

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2023

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Summary

This 2023 review, published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, reframes anxiety symptoms within a threat imminence framework, proposing that anxiety presentations reflect aberrant or atypical defensive responding calibrated to perceived threat proximity. The paper appears to integrate neurobiological findings with defensive behaviour theory to account for heterogeneity in anxiety manifestations. The work contributes to mechanistic understanding of anxiety psychopathology rather than agricultural or nutritional science.

Regional applicability

This neuroscience review has no direct applicability to UK farming systems, soil health, or food-system nutrition. It addresses clinical anxiety neurophysiology and is outside Vitagri Pulse Brain's core remit.

Key measures

Threat imminence levels, defensive response phenotypes, anxiety symptom profiles

Outcomes reported

The study conceptualises anxiety symptoms as variations in defensive responding organised along a threat imminence continuum. It appears to review neurobiological and behavioural mechanisms underlying anxiety manifestations.

Theme
General food systems / other
Subject
Other / interdisciplinary
Study type
Narrative Review
Study design
Narrative review
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
Status
Published
System type
Other
DOI
10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105305
Catalogue ID
SNmoj7nu48-br4mjh

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