The video-recorded Stroop Color-Word Test as a new model of experimentally-induced anxiety

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 809-822

  Leite, José Roberto ^a   Seabra, Maria De Lourdes V ^a   Sartori, Vania A ^a   Andreatini, Roberto ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Farmacol do Sist Nervoso Central   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Diazepam; Experimentally induced; Normal volunteers; Stroop effect

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MENTAL TEST; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANXIETY; COLOR PERCEPTION; DIAZEPAM; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0033167206     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-5846(99)00042-1     Document Type: Article

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