Pupillary motility: Bringing neuroscience to the psychiatry clinic of the future

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Graur, Simona ^a   Siegle, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Autism; Autonomic dysfunction; Brain computer interaction; Cognition; Cognitive processing; Depression; Emotion; Emotional processing; Executive control; Limbic system; Parkinson's disease; Psychiatry; Psychopathology; Psychotherapy; Pupil; Pupil dilation; Pupillometry; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EMOTION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MYDRIASIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; OPTIC NERVE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUPILLOMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRAIN; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; MENTAL DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUPIL; REVIEW;

BRAIN; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PUPIL;

EID: 84878930418     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-013-0365-0     Document Type: Article

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