Failure of extinction of fear responses in posttraumatic stress disorder: Evidence from second-order conditioning

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 164, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1684-1692

  Wessa, Michèle ^a   Flor, Herta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEAR; HEART RATE; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 36749060909     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07030525     Document Type: Article

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