Brain Dynamics in Spider-Phobic Individuals Exposed to Phobia-Relevant and Other Emotional Stimuli

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 306-315

  Michalowski, Jaroslaw M ^a   Melzig, Christiane A ^a   Weike, Almut I ^a   Stockburger, Jessica ^b   Schupp, Harald T ^b   Hamm, Alfons O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

attention; emotion; event related potentials (ERPs); fear; phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHOBIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPIDER; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPIDERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 66949169612     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015550     Document Type: Article

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