Processing of emotional faces in children and adolescents with anxiety disorders

Behaviour Change

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 183-194

  Benoit, Kristy E ^a,d   McNally, Richard J ^a   Rapee, Ronald M ^b   Gamble, Amanda L ^b   Wiseman, Amy L ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COMORBIDITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSTHYMIA; EMOTIONALITY; ENURESIS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MUTISM; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT;

EID: 38349193407     PISSN: 08134839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/bech.24.4.183     Document Type: Article

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