Isolating neural components of threat bias in pediatric anxiety

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 678-686

  Britton, Jennifer C ^a   Bar Haim, Yair ^b   Carver, Frederick W ^c   Holroyd, Tom ^c   Norcross, Maxine A ^a   Detloff, Allison ^a   Leibenluft, Ellen ^a   Ernst, Monique ^a   Pine, Daniel S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Core Facility   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; magnetoencephalography; ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; ESCAPE REACTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861329354     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2011.02503.x     Document Type: Article

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