Anticipation of Aversive Visual Stimuli Is Associated With Increased Insula Activation in Anxiety-Prone Subjects

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 402-409

  Simmons, Alan ^a,b   Strigo, Irina ^a,b   Matthews, Scott C ^a,b   Paulus, Martin P ^a,b,c   Stein, Murray B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticipation; anxiety; avoidance; fMRI; imaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSULA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; SPIDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERSONALITY TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747083188     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.04.038     Document Type: Article

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