Specificity of regional brain activity in anxiety types during emotion processing

Psychophysiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 352-363

  Engels, Anna S ^a   Heller, Wendy ^a   Mohanty, Aprajita ^a,d   Herrington, John D ^a,e   Banich, Marie T ^b   Webb, Andrew G ^c   Miller, Gregory A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxious apprehension; Anxious arousal; Emotion; fMRI; Stroop

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 34247140658     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00518.x     Document Type: Article

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