"Change the mind and you change the brain": Effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy on the neural correlates of spider phobia

NeuroImage

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 401-409

  Paquette, Vincent ^a,c   Lévesque, Johanne ^a   Mensour, Boualem ^b   Leroux, Jean Maxime ^b   Beaudoin, Gilles ^b,c   Bourgouin, Pierre ^b,c   Beauregard, Mario ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^b NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cognitive behavioral therapy; fMRI; Parahippocampal gyrus; Prefrontal cortex; Spider phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOBIA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER; SUBICULUM; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0037328427     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(02)00030-7     Document Type: Article

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