Electrocortical processing of social signals of threat in combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder

Biological Psychology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 441-449

  MacNamara, Annmarie ^a   Post, David ^a   Kennedy, Amy E ^a,c   Rabinak, Christine A ^b   Phan, K Luan ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional faces; ERP; Event related potentials; Late positive potential; LPP; Numbing; PTSD; Vertex positive potential; VPP

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ANGER; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; IRAQ; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERTEX POSITIVE POTENTIALS; VETERAN;

EMOTIONAL FACES; ERP; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; LPP; NUMBING; PTSD; VERTEX POSITIVE POTENTIAL; VPP;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMBAT DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FACE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884563805     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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