Treatment of fear of flying: Behavioral, subjective, and cardiovascular effects

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 550-562

  Trimmel, Michael ^a   Burger, Margit ^a   Langer, Gabriela ^a   Trimmel, Karin ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cognitive aspects of anxiety; Fear of flying; Heart rate variability; PNNxx; Somatic aspects of anxiety; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVIATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AIR TRAVEL; ANXIETY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOBIC DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898857217     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.3821.2014     Document Type: Article

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