Linking an anxiety-related personality trait to brain white matter microstructure: Diffusion tensor imaging and harm avoidance

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 369-377

  Westlye, Lars T ^a   Bjørnebekk, Astrid ^a   Grydeland, Håkon K ^a   Fjell, Anders M ^a   Walhovd, Kristine B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ADVERTIZING; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HARM REDUCTION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORWAY; PERSONALITY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANISOTROPY; ANXIETY; ATROPHY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PERSONALITY;

EID: 79953742405     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.24     Document Type: Article

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