Pathological anxiety and function/dysfunction in the brain's fear/defense circuitry

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-77

  Lang, Peter J ^a   McTeague, Lisa M ^a   Bradley, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; chronicity; comorbidity; depression; diagnostic subtypes; emotional reactivity; fMRI; GAD; Imagery; panic; psychophysiology; PTSD; real time fMRI; social phobia; specific phobia; startle; trauma

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BLUNTED AFFECT; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMORBIDITY; CONNECTOME; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEAR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE REFLEX; UPREGULATION;

ANXIETY; CHRONICITY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC SUBTYPES; EMOTIONAL REACTIVITY; FMRI; GAD; IMAGERY; PANIC; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PTSD; REAL-TIME FMRI; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SPECIFIC PHOBIA; STARTLE; TRAUMA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; FEAR; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84892897727     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-139012     Document Type: Article

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