The neural correlates of impaired inhibitory control in anxiety

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1146-1153

  Ansari, Tahereh L ^a   Derakshan, Nazanin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antisaccade; Anxiety; Attention; ERP; Inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954419010     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.01.019     Document Type: Article

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