Stimulus-reinforcement-based decision making and anxiety: Impairment in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) but not in generalized social phobia (GSP)

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1153-1161

  DeVido, J ^a   Jones, M ^a   Geraci, M ^a   Hollon, N ^a   Blair, R J R ^a   Pine, D S ^a   Blair, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Generalized anxiety disorder; Generalized social phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; PUNISHMENT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANXIETY DISORDER; AROUSAL; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERSONALITY TEST; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AROUSAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PUNISHMENT; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249232157     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003329170800487X     Document Type: Article

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