Loss of control and negative emotions: A cortical slow potential topography study

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 127-141

  Fretska, Eva ^a   Bauer, Herbert ^a   Leodolter, Michael ^a   Leodolter, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Active coping; Control; Emotion; Extra cephalic reference; Slow potential topography (SPT); Slow potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032805298     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8760(99)00025-2     Document Type: Article

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