Defensive mobilization in specific phobia: Fear specificity, negative affectivity, and diagnostic prominence

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-18

  McTeague, Lisa M ^a   Lang, Peter J ^a   Wangelin, Bethany C ^a   Laplante, Marie Claude ^a   Bradley, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; chronicity; comorbidity; corrugator; depression; EMG; emotional reactivity; facial expressivity; fear; heart rate; imagery; mental imagery; narrative imagery; psychophysiology; SCL; skin conductance; specific phobia; startle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DYSPHORIA; EYELID REFLEX; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 84862024821     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.01.012     Document Type: Article

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