Emotional anticipation rather than processing is altered in patients with vasovagal syncope

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1319-1327

  Buodo, Giulia ^a   Sarlo, Michela ^a   Poli, Silvia ^a   Giada, Franco ^b   Madalosso, Michela ^c   Rossi, Cesare ^c   Palomba, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b PF Calvi Hospital   (Italy)

^c OSPEDALE DELL'ANGELO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Emotion; Stimulus Preceding Negativity; Vasovagal syncope

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCOPE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL;

EID: 84861707836     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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