Acute and delayed effects of alprazolam on flight phobics during exposure

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 831-841

  Wilhelm, Frank H ^a   Roth, Walton T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; BENZODIAZEPINE;

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLIGHT; FLYING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONITORING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PANIC; PHOBIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SELF REPORT; STRESS; THERAPY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ALPRAZOLAM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANXIETY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DESENSITIZATION, PSYCHOLOGIC; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PANIC DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS;

EID: 0030768173     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(97)00033-8     Document Type: Article

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