Contrasting patterns of brain activity in anxious apprehension and anxious arousal

Psychophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 628-637

  Nitschke, Jack B ^a   Heller, Wendy ^b   Palmieri, Patrick A ^b   Miller, Gregory A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxious apprehension; Anxious arousal; EEG alpha; Emotion; Regional brain activity

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY;

EID: 0032793643     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0048577299972013     Document Type: Article

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