Effect of gender on processing threat-related stimuli in patients with panic disorder: Sex does matter

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1034-1043

  Ohrmann, Patricia ^a   Pedersen, Anya ^a   Braun, Miriam ^a   Bauer, Jochen ^a   Kugel, Harald ^a   Kersting, Anette ^a   Domschke, Katharina ^a   Deckert, Jürgen ^b   Suslow, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

amygdala; functional magnetic resonance imaging; gender; panic disorder; threat related stimuli

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PANIC; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; THREAT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; PANIC DISORDER; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THALAMUS;

EID: 78649285246     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20721     Document Type: Article

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