Motor cortex excitability correlates with an anxiety-related personality trait

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 377-382

  Wassermann, Eric M ^a,d   Greenberg, Benjamin D ^b   Nguyen, Margaret B ^a   Murphy, Dennis L ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; GABA; Motor cortex; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Sex differences; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSESSION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AROUSAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0035450821     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(01)01210-0     Document Type: Article

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