Functional neuroanatomy of anxiety: A neural circuit perspective

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 251-277

  Etkin, Amit ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anterior cingulate; Anxiety; Circuit; Dorsomedial prefrontal; Emotion; Emotion regulation; Fear; GAD; Generalized anxiety disorder; Hippocampus; Hypothalamus; Insula; Limbic system; Medial prefrontal; Metaanalysis; Obsessive compulsive disorder; OCD; Panic disorder; Periaqueductal gray; Posttraumatic stress disorder; PTSD; Social anxiety disorder; Social phobia; Specific phobia; Ventromedial prefrontal

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMPLICIT MEMORY; INSULA; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MEMORY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STROOP TEST; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; NERVE TRACT; PANIC; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 79951634464     PISSN: 18663370     EISSN: 18663389     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2009_5     Document Type: Review

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