Sex differences in the functional and structural neuroanatomy of dental phobia

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 218, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 779-787

  Schienle, Anne ^a,b   Scharmüller, Wilfried ^a   Leutgeb, Verena ^a   Schäfer, Axel ^c   Stark, Rudolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective pictures; Dental phobia; fMRI; Sex differences; Symptom provocation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL PHOBIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOBIA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DENTAL ANXIETY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879554473     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-012-0428-z     Document Type: Article

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