Altered auditory processing in patients with panic disorder: A pilot study

World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 945-955

  Pfleiderer, Bettina ^a   Zinkirciran, Sariye ^a   Michael, Nikolaus ^a   Hohoff, Christa ^a   Kersting, Anette ^a,b   Arolt, Volker ^a   Deckert, Jrgen ^c   Domschke, Katharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; auditory processing; functional magnetic resonance imaging; imaging genetics; sensory stimuli

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL; PANIC; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ALLELES; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PANIC DISORDER; PILOT PROJECTS; SENSORY GATING; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 78549265512     PISSN: 15622975     EISSN: 18141412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15622975.2010.490273     Document Type: Article

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