Emotional processing in PTSD: Heightened negative emotionality to unpleasant photographic stimuli

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 197, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 419-426

  Wolf, Erika J ^a,b   Miller, Mark W ^a,b,c   McKinney, Ann E ^a  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Emotional processing; IAPS; PTSD

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RATING SCALE; VIET NAM; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAR; AFFECT; ART; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISION;

AFFECT; AROUSAL; EXPRESSED EMOTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PORTRAITS AS TOPIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67649391057     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181a61c68     Document Type: Article

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