Frontal brain hypoactivity as a biological substrate of anxiety in patients with panic disorders

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 165-170

  Akiyoshi, Jotaro ^a   Hieda, Keiko ^a   Aoki, Yoshinori ^a   Nagayama, Haruo ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Frontal brain; International Affective Picture System; Near infrared reflection spectroscopy; Panic disorder

Indexed keywords

OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NEAR INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PANIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; REST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN; PANIC DISORDER; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0037979230     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070587     Document Type: Article

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