Neural mechanisms of automatic and direct processing of phobogenic stimuli in specific phobia

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 162-170

  Straube, Thomas ^a   Mentzel, Hans Joachim ^a   Miltner, Wolfgang H R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attention; fMRI; Phobia; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; INSULA; MUSHROOM; NERVE MEMBRANE; PHOBIA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REFERENCE VALUES; SPIDERS;

EID: 30944433769     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.06.013     Document Type: Article

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