Covariation bias and its physiological correlates in panic disorder patients

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 177-191

  Amrhein, Christine ^a,c   Pauli, Paul ^b   Dengler, Wilhelm ^a   Wiedemann, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contingent Negative Variation; Covariation bias; Panic disorder; Startle reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PANIC; PHOBIA; PHOTOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZATION; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS; AFFECT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; INNERVATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AFFECT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BLINKING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PANIC DISORDER; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 7944229544     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2004.01.004     Document Type: Article

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