Is panic disorder linked to cognitive avoidance of threatening information?

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 335-348

  McNally, Richard J ^a   Otto, Michael W ^b   Yap, Liang ^b   Pollack, Mark H ^b   Hornig, Christopher D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Directed forgetting; Hemispheric laterality; Memory bias; Panic disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEMORY; PANIC; PERFORMANCE; RECALL; THREAT;

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PANIC DISORDER;

EID: 0032780538     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-6185(99)00008-0     Document Type: Article

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