Two successive phases in the threat-related attentional response of anxious subjects: Neural correlates

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1141-1150

  Mercado, Francisco ^a   Carretié, Luis ^b   Hinojosa, José Antonio ^c   Peñacoba, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attentional biases; Emotion; Event related potentials; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73249128369     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20608     Document Type: Article

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