ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2023
From helplessness to controllability: toward a neuroscience of resilience.
Review in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Motivation to exert effort dynamically adapts to reward context and environmental controllability.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Preconception Learned Helplessness as a Cognitive Vulnerability to Lower Maternal Bonding Across the Perinatal Period.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Mesohabenular glutamatergic regulation of the consequences of uncontrollable stress.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Psychological Capital's Impact on Learned Helplessness Among Nursing Postgraduates: A Path Analysis of Dual Mediation Through Professional Identity Dimensions.Nursing open · 2026Article
- Agency and well-being.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2026Article
- Emotions, preventive measures, and risk perception in post-emergency COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in Italian university staff during the seasonal vaccination campaign.BMC public health · 2026Article
- From Aversive, Toward Appetitive: A Behavioral Conceptual Analysis of Compassion.Behavior analysis in practice · 2026Article
- Coping with stress produces differential systemic and brain corticosterone patterns in female rats.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Active coping mitigates the effects of stress on glucocorticoid levels in the prefrontal cortex.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2025Article
- Effects of systemic oxytocin receptor activation and blockade on risky decision making in female and male rats.Behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Stress and Inflammation Target Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Function: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Weakened Cognitive Control.Biological psychiatry · 2025Review
- Response of parvalbumin interneurons and perineuronal nets in rat medial prefrontal cortex and lateral amygdala to stressor controllability.Brain research · 2025Article
- Dysregulated calcium signaling in the aged primate association cortices: vulnerability to Alzheimer's disease neuropathology.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Review
- Learned helplessness and learned controllability: from neurobiology to cognitive, emotional and behavioral neurosciences.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Effects of social dominance and acute social stress on morphology of microglia and structural integrity of the medial prefrontal cortex.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2024Article
- Stress and substance use disorders: risk, relapse, and treatment outcomes.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2024Review
- Effect of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Patients with Early-Onset Schizophrenia.Alpha psychiatry · 2024Article
- Preexposure to one social threat alters responses to another social threat: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Prior experience with behavioral control over stress facilitates social dominance.Neurobiology of stress · 2024Article
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Abstract
"Learned helplessness" refers to debilitating outcomes, such as passivity and increased fear, that follow an uncontrollable adverse event, but do not when that event is controllable. The original explanation argued that when events are uncontrollable the animal learns that outcomes are independent of its behavior, and that this is the active ingredient in producing the effects. Controllable adverse events, in contrast, fail to produce these outcomes because they lack the active uncontrollability element. Recent work on the neural basis of helplessness, however, takes the opposite view. Prolonged exposure to aversive stimulation
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