Frontal brain activation in anxious school children

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 265-274

  Baving, Lioba ^a   Laucht, Manfred ^a   Schmidt, Martin H ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Children; EEG; Frontal brain activation; Gender

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BOY; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GIRL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HYPERKINESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA; VIOLENCE; AGGRESSION; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CONTROL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; INTELLIGENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

AGGRESSION; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0036481828     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-7610.00019     Document Type: Article

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