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The Relationship Between the Effect of Lactate Infusion on Anxiety States, and their Amelioration by Carbon Dioxide Inhalation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. T. Haslam
M. T. Haslam*
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Clifton Hospital, York
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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.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 584 , July 1974 , pp. 88 - 90
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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