Jeffrey Gray's 1982 account of anxiety — proposing the Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) as the neural mechanism underlying anxiety — integrating animal learning, pharmacology, and neuroanatomy in the most comprehensive biological theory of anxiety.
Creates the BIS model of anxiety — Gray's synthesis shows that anxiety is produced by a specific neural system (BIS) that activates when behavioral plans are frustrated by punishment threats or reward failures; the model is the most biologically grounded anxiety theory and underlies Big 5 personality research on neuroticism.
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