Making a mountain out of a molehill: On the role of the rostral dorsal anterior cingulate and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in conscious threat appraisal, catastrophizing, and worrying

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-8

  Kalisch, Raffael ^a,b   Gerlicher, Anna M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anticipatory anxiety; Anxiety sensitivity; Evaluation; Instructed fear; Interoception; Panic

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; CATASTROPHIZING; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DORSAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; REWARD; THREAT; WORRYING; CINGULATE GYRUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANXIETY; CATASTROPHIZATION; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84894660950     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.02.002     Document Type: Review

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