Emotion regulation and potentiated startle across affective picture and threat-of-shock paradigms

Biological Psychology

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 124-133

  Lissek, Shmuel ^a   Orme, Kaebah ^a   Mcdowell, Dana J ^a   Johnson, Linda L ^a   Luckenbaugh, David A ^a   Baas, Johanna M ^b   Cornwell, Brian R ^a   Grillon, Christian ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Emotion regulation; Fear; Psychophysiology; Startle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FEMALE; HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE REFLEX; SYMBOLISM; THREAT; UNPLEASANT SENSATION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; BLINKING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSHOCK; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; STARTLE REACTION; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 34547948548     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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