Attentional biases for emotional facial stimuli in currently depressed patients with bipolar disorder

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 393-410

  Leyman, Lemke ^a   De Raedt, Rudi ^a   Koster, Ernst H W ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attention; Bipolar depression; Experiment; Facial expressions; Spatial cueing

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249086955     PISSN: 16972600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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