Anxiety sensitivity correlates with two indices of right anterior insula structure in specific animal phobia

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1104-1110

  Rosso, Isabelle M ^a,b   Makris, Nikos ^b,c   Britton, Jennifer C ^d   Price, Lauren M ^a   Gold, Andrea L ^e   Zai, David ^c   Bruyere, John ^c   Deckersbach, Thilo ^b,c   Killgore, William D S ^a,b   Rauch, Scott L ^a,b  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; anxiety sensitivity; fear; insular cortex; magnetic resonance imaging; phobic disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL PHOBIA; ANXIETY; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY INDEX; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHARACTER; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; RODENTIA; SNAKES; SPIDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649991354     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20765     Document Type: Article

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