Meaning of anxiogenic | Babel Free

Definitions

Causing anxiety, or pertaining to the causing of anxiety.

Equivalents

Examples

“A CRF antagonist, -helical CRF(9-41), can also attenuate the anxiogenic behavioral effects of HU-210.”

“Increases in dopamine efflux in the NAS cannot simply be seen as equivalent to drug reward⟳, because aversive stimuli, such as foot shock⟳, and anxiogenic drugs, such as FG 7142 and beta-CCE (which are not self-administered), have⟳ exactly the same neurochemical effect (3 ).”

“Central injection of substance P or related peptide agonists induces conditioned place⟳ aversion and produces an anxiogenic profile on the elevated plus maze, implying that activation of central substance P pathways is aversive (5 ).”

“Thus, self-directed behavior increases after anxiogenic drug treatment but decreases after anxiolytic drug treatment (29 ).”

“This piece will perform⟳ a micro-excavation of these toplayers of the literary soil to suggest⟳ anxiogenic literature has the potential not only to adumbrate the post-apocalypse, a common theme in contemporary literature, but also to anticipate the post-Anthropocene.”

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