Airpuff startle probes: An efficacious and less aversive alternative to white-noise

Biological Psychology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 283-297

  Lissek, Shmuel ^a   Baas, Johanna M P ^b   Pine, Daniel S ^a   Orme, Kaebah ^a   Dvir, Sharone ^a   Nugent, Monique ^a   Rosenberger, Emily ^a   Rawson, Elizabeth ^a   Grillon, Christian ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Fear; Psychophysiology; Startle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AIR MOVEMENTS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ARTIFACTS; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 11144339574     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2004.07.007     Document Type: Article

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