Failure of anterior cingulate activation and connectivity with the amygdala during implicit regulation of emotional processing in generalized anxiety disorder

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 167, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 545-554

  Etkin, Amit ^a   Prater, Katherine E ^a   Hoeft, Fumiko ^a   Menon, Vinod ^a   Schatzberg, Alan F ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 77951807318     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09070931     Document Type: Article

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