Sex differences in response to a panicogenic challenge procedure: An experimental evaluation of panic vulnerability in a non-clinical sample

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1421-1430

  Kelly, Megan M ^a   Forsyth, John P ^a   Karekla, Maria ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological challenge; Emotion regulation; Panic; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CARBON DIOXIDE BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHALATION TEST; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MORBIDITY; PANIC; PROVOCATION TEST; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PANIC; PANIC DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS;

EID: 33748966089     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2005.10.012     Document Type: Article

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