Joseph LeDoux
b. 1949 · USAFear circuits
Mapped amygdala pathways for defensive responding.
Eight voices who shaped threat learning, clinical taxonomy and evidence-based anxiety care.
Portraits resolve via Wikimedia when licences allow.
People
Michelle Craske
b. 1959 · Australia/USAInhibitory learning
Modern exposure theory emphasising new safety learning.
Aaron Beck
1921–2021 · USACognitive model
Cognitive therapy foundations for anxiety and depression.
David Barlow
b. 1942 · USAUnified protocols
Transdiagnostic approaches to emotional disorders.
Michael Davis
1939–2021 · USAFear-potentiated startle
Rigorous behavioural neuroscience of fear learning.
Hans Eysenck
1916–1997 · Germany/UKTrait anxiety
Early dimensional views of neuroticism and conditioning.
Edna Foa
b. 1937 · Israel/USAExposure therapy
Influential exposure frameworks for anxiety and PTSD.
Borwin Bandelow
b. 1950s · GermanyEpidemiology
Syntheses of anxiety epidemiology and treatment guidelines.
Read primary papers; this page is not care.
Sources & research
- Anxiety disordersPrimer on anxiety disorders and mechanisms.DOI
- Using Neuroscience to Help Understand Fear and Anxiety: A Two-System FrameworkTwo-system framing of fear vs anxiety circuits.DOI
- Epidemiology of anxiety disorders in the 21st centuryEpidemiology of anxiety disorders.DOI
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