Exposure therapy leads to enhanced late frontal positivity in 8- to 13-year-old spider phobic girls

Biological Psychology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 97-104

  Leutgeb, Verena ^a   Schäfer, Axel ^a   Köchel, Angelika ^a   Schienle, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Children; Cognitive behavioral therapy; Disgust proneness; ERP; Exposure; LPP; P300; Spider phobia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; NEUROBIOLOGY; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPIDER PHOBIA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SPIDERS;

EID: 84859132870     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.02.008     Document Type: Article

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