Implicit memory bias for threat in panic disorder: Application of the 'white noise' paradigm

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 157-162

  Amir, Nader ^a,d   McNally, Richard J ^b   Riemann, Bradley C ^c   Clements, Caroline ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ctr Stud Treatm Anxiety Disord   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PANIC; THREAT; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 0030071259     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0005-7967(95)00054-2     Document Type: Article

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