Visual Event-Related Potentials in Subjects with Alexithymia: Modified Processing of Emotional Aversive Information?

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 728-735

  Franz, Matthias ^a,b   Schaefer, Ralf ^a   Schneider, Christine ^a   Sitte, Wolfgang ^a   Bachor, Jessica ^a  

^a Clin Inst Psychosom Med/P   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CANADA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; AFFECT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842428196     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.161.4.728     Document Type: Article

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