Have we met before? Neural correlates of emotional learning in women with social phobia

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages E14-E23

  Laeger, Inga ^a   Keuper, Kati ^a   Heitmann, Carina ^a   Kugel, Harald ^a   Dobel, Christian ^a   Eden, Annuschka ^a   Arolt, Volker ^a   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^a   Dannlowski, Udo ^a,b   Zwanzger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANIC; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL INTERACTION ANXIETY SCALE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL PHOBIA SCALE; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TRAINING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOBIA; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; READING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; READING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84900813418     PISSN: 11804882     EISSN: 14882434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/jpn.130091     Document Type: Article

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