Neural predictors and mechanisms of cognitive behavioral therapy on threat processing in social anxiety disorder

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue , 2013, Pages 83-91

  Klumpp, Heide ^a   Fitzgerald, Daniel A ^a   Phan, K Luan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Emotional faces; FMRI; Generalized social anxiety; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROMODULATION; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROGNOSIS; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; THERAPY EFFECT; THREAT; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACC; ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; BDI; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BLOOD-OXYGEN-LEVEL-DEPENDENT; BOLD; BRAIN IMAGING; CBT; CGI-I; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION-IMPROVEMENT; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS FOURTH EDITION TEXT REVISION; DSM-IV; EMOTIONAL FACES; FMRI; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERALIZED SOCIAL ANXIETY; GENERALIZED SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER; GSAD; HC; HEALTHY CONTROLS; LIEBOWITZ SOCIAL ANXIETY SCALE; LSAS; PFC; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TREATMENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITIVE THERAPY; ENDOPHENOTYPES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84878820731     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: 18784216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2013.05.004     Document Type: Article

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