Differential attentional bias in generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-80

  Chen, Jing ^a   Wang, Zhiyan ^a   Wu, Yan ^a   Cai, Yiyun ^a   Shen, Yifeng ^a   Wang, Liwei ^a   Shi, Shenxun ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Emotional stroop task; Generalized anxiety disorder; Panic disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER RELATED WORD; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTRAL WORD; PANIC; PANIC DISORDER RELATED WORD; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSITIVE WORD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; STROOP TEST;

EID: 84872847070     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S36822     Document Type: Article

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