Brain activation to phobia-related words in phobic subjects

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 372, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 204-208

  Straube, Thomas ^a   Mentzel, Hans J ^a   Glauer, Madlen ^a   Miltner, Wolfgang H R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Insula; Phobia; Posterior cingulate gyrus; Words

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PHOBIA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; READING; SPIDERS;

EID: 7944239180     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.09.050     Document Type: Article

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