Uncertainty and anticipation in anxiety: An integrated neurobiological and psychological perspective

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 488-501

  Grupe, Dan W ^a   Nitschke, Jack B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTICIPATION; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONDITIONING; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; EXPOSURE; FEAR; HUMAN; INSULA; LEARNING; NEUROBIOLOGY; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR INSULA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; STRIA TERMINALIS; SYLVIAN FISSURE; THERAPY; THREAT; UNCERTAINTY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; NEUROBIOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84879369197     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3524     Document Type: Review

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