Discovering the Neural Basis of Human Social Anxiety: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Imperative

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-2

  Charney, Dennis S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METABOLISM; NOTE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOBIA; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

AFFECT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1442289932     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.161.1.1     Document Type: Editorial

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