Electrophysiological correlates of threat processing in spider phobics

Psychophysiology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 520-530

  Kolassa, Iris Tatjana ^a,b   Musial, Frauke ^b   Mohr, Alexander ^b   Trippe, Ralf H ^b   Miltner, Wolfgang H R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Arousal; Emotional interference; Emotional Stroop; Event related potentials (ERPs); Spider phobia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STROOP TASK; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SPIDER; SPIDER PHOBIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEAR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPIDERS;

EID: 33644874697     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2005.00315.x     Document Type: Article

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