Functional MRI study of specific animal phobia using an event-related emotional counting stroop paradigm

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 796-805

  Britton, Jennifer C ^a,b,c   Gold, Andrea L ^a,b,d   Deckersbach, Thilo ^a   Rauch, Scott L ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Attention; Cingulate; fMRI; Psychophysiological interaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PHOBIA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349086603     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20569     Document Type: Article

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