Worry tendencies predict brain activation during aversive imagery

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 461, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 289-292

  Schienle, Anne ^a,b   Schäfer, Axel ^a   Pignanelli, Roman ^b   Vaitl, Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective pictures; fMRI; Visual imagery; Worrying

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INSULA; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; THREAT;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649976568     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.06.041     Document Type: Article

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