Vigilance for threat interacts with amygdala responses to subliminal threat cues in specific phobia

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 472-478

  Lipka, Judith ^a   Miltner, Wolfgang H R ^a   Straube, Thomas ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; awareness; backward masking; fear; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); vigilance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MASKING; NEUROIMAGING; PERCEPTION; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SPIDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THREAT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SELF REPORT; SPIDERS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80051471163     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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