The Relationship Between the Effect of Lactate Infusion on Anxiety States, and their Amelioration by Carbon Dioxide Inhalation
- 1 July 1974
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 125 (584) , 88-90
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.125.1.88
Abstract
Anxiety is perhaps one of the commonest and most disabling symptoms in medicine, yet its satisfactory alleviation has been elusive.Work by Kluver and Bucy (1939) suggested that the amygdala generated anxiety, the function of the hippocampus being to decrease it. The hypothalamus appears to organize the level of arousal through the amygdala.Keywords
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