Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-418) and index
1. Overview -- 2. Ethology and Anxiety -- 3. Learning Theory and Anxiety -- 4. The Anxiolytic Drugs -- 5. A Theory of the Behavioural Inhibition System -- 6. The Neurology of Anxiety -- 7. Hippocampal Place Fields -- 8. Memory and the Septo-Hippocampal System -- 9. Fundamentals of the Septo-Hippocampal System -- 10. A Theory of the Septo-Hippocampal System -- 11. Symptoms and Syndromes of Anxiety -- 12. Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again: The Anxious Personality and its Inheritance -- 13. The Treatment of Anxiety -- App. 1. The behavioural profile of anxiolytic drugs -- App. 2. The periaqueductal grey, medial hypothalamus, and amygdala -- App. 3. The prefrontal cortex and cingulate cortex -- App. 4. Anatomy of the septo-hippocampal system -- App. 5. Electrophysiology and pharmacology of the septo-hippocampal system -- App. 6. Electrical activity of the septo-hippocampal system and behaviour -- App. 7. Electrical stimulation of the septo-hippocampal system, behaviour, and sleep -- App. 8. Behavioural effects of large septo-hippocampal lesions -- App. 9. Dissecting the septo-hippocampal syndrome -- App. 10. Ascending modulatory systems