Automatic neural processing of disorder-related stimuli in social anxiety disorder: Faces and more

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Schulz, Claudia ^a   Mothes Lasch, Martin ^a   Straube, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automaticity; EEG; Emotion; Face; FMRI; SAD

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878927114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00282     Document Type: Review

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