Brain correlates of an unexpected panic attack: A human positron emission tomographic study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 251, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 137-140

  Fischer, Håkan ^a,b   Andersson, Jesper L R ^b   Furmark, Tomas ^a   Fredrikson, Mats ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Fear; Neuroimaging; Positron emission tomography; Regional cerebral blood flow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PANIC; PHOBIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; PANIC DISORDER; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032563321     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00503-5     Document Type: Article

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