Neural correlates of the emotional Stroop task in panic disorder patients: An event-related fMRI study

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1627-1634

  Dresler, Thomas ^a,b   Attar, Catherine Hindi ^c   Spitzer, Carsten ^c,d   Löwe, Bernd ^c   Deckert, Jürgen ^b   Büchel, Christian ^c   Ehlis, Ann Christine ^a   Fallgatter, Andreas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d Asklepios Fachklinikum Tiefenbrunn   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotional Stroop task; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Panic disorder; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; PANIC; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROOP TEST;

EID: 84868115646     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: 18791379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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