Effect of cognitive-behavioral therapy on neural correlates of fear conditioning in panic disorder

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-101

  Kircher, Tilo ^a   Arolt, Volker ^b   Jansen, Andreas ^a   Pyka, Martin ^a   Reinhardt, Isabelle ^c   Kellermann, Thilo ^c   Konrad, Carsten ^a,b   Lueken, Ulrike ^d   Gloster, Andrew T ^d   Gerlach, Alexander L ^e   Ströhle, Andreas ^f   Wittmann, André ^f   Pfleiderer, Bettina ^b   Wittchen, Hans Ulrich ^d   Straube, Benjamin ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agoraphobia; CBT; fear conditioning; fMRI; functional connectivity; neural plasticity; panic disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PANIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPY EFFECT;

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PANIC DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 84870676175     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.07.026     Document Type: Article

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