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Anxiety: at the intersection of genes and experience

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Human anxiety disorders arise from a combination of genetic vulnerability and traumatic experience. Mice with a GABAA receptor mutation may provide a model for these disorders.

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Figure 1: Individual variability in response to anxiety-provoking environments.
Figure 2: Simplified neural circuit mediating fear.

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    Stephan G. Anagnostaras, Michelle G. Craske & Michael S. Fanselow

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