Anticipation of interoceptive threat in highly anxiety sensitive persons

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1126-1134

  Melzig, Christiane A ^a   Michalowski, Jaroslaw M ^a   Holtz, Katharina ^a   Hamm, Alfons O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anticipatory anxiety; Anxious apprehension; Fear potentiated startle; Hyperventilation; Threat of shock

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SOMATIZATION; STARTLE REFLEX; THREAT;

ANXIETY; CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERVENTILATION; MALE; PANIC DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRES; STARTLE REACTION; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 50849142866     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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