Selective processing of threat cues in subjects with panic attacks

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 201-219

  Ehlers, Anke ^a   Margraf, Jurgen ^a   Davies, Sylvia ^b   Roth, Walton T ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000142606     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699938808410924     Document Type: Article

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