Neurocircuitry of generalized anxiety disorder in adolescents: A pilot functional neuroimaging and functional connectivity study

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 939-947

  Strawn, Jeffrey R ^a,b   Bitter, Samantha M ^a   Weber, Wade A ^a   Chu, Wen Jang ^a   Whitsel, Rachel M ^a   Adler, Caleb ^a   Cerullo, Michel A ^a   Eliassen, James ^a   Strakowski, Stephen M ^a   Delbello, Melissa P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

anterior limbic network; anxiety disorders; GAD; fMRI; youth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PILOT PROJECTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84868530678     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.21961     Document Type: Article

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