Sleep-related attentional bias in patients with primary insomnia compared with sleep experts and healthy controls

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 191-196

  Spiegelhalder, Kai ^a   Espie, Colin ^b   Nissen, Christoph ^a   Riemann, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Cognitive arousal; Primary insomnia; Sleep experts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DESENSITIZATION, PSYCHOLOGIC; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 43549096395     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: 13652869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2008.00641.x     Document Type: Article

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