Frontal brain asymmetry as a biological substrate of emotions in patients with panic disorders

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 78-84

  Wiedemann, Georg ^a   Pauli, Paul ^a   Dengler, Wilhelm ^a   Lutzenberger, Wemer ^a   Birbaumer, Niels ^a   Buchkremer, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; PANIC;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PANIC DISORDER; PARIETAL LOBE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032931166     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.56.1.78     Document Type: Article

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