Measuring adult attachment representation in an fMRI environment: Concepts and assessment

Psychopathology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 136-143

  Buchheim, Anna ^a   George, Carol ^b   Kächele, Horst ^a   Erk, Susanne ^a   Walter, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b MILLS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult Attachment; Attachment representation; fMRI; Projective

Indexed keywords

ADULT ATTACHMENT PROJECTIVE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; FAMILY; FRIEND; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTIMACY; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; PHOTOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBJECT ATTACHMENT;

EID: 33645465156     PISSN: 02544962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091799     Document Type: Article

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