Enlarged frontal P300 to stimulus change in panic disorder

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 845-856

  Clark, C Richard ^a   McFarlane, Alexander C ^b   Weber, Darren Lee ^a   Battersby, Malcolm ^c  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Distraction; Event related potentials; Evoked potentials; Noradrenaline; Orienting response; P300; P3a; P3b; Panic disorder; Prefrontal limbic pathways

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; PANIC; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0030015266     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(95)00288-X     Document Type: Article

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