The impact of anxiety-inducing distraction on cognitive performance: A combined brain imaging and personality investigation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Denkova, Ekaterina ^a   Wong, Gloria ^a   Dolcos, Sanda ^b   Sung, Keen ^a   Wang, Lihong ^c   Coupland, Nicholas ^a   Dolcos, Florin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EMOTION; HISTOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649785428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014150     Document Type: Article

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