Investigating Models of Affect: Relationships Among EEG Alpha Asymmetry, Depression, and Anxiety

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 560-572

  Mathersul, Danielle ^a,b   Williams, Leanne M ^b   Hopkinson, Patrick J ^b   Kemp, Andrew H ^b  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

approach withdrawal; EEG; hemispheric asymmetry; non clinical subclinical; valence arousal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EEG ABNORMALITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD; PARIETAL LOBE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 50849123459     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012811     Document Type: Article

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