Neural correlates of procedural variants in cognitive-behavioral therapy: A randomized, controlled multicenter fMRI study

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 222-233

  Straube, Benjamin ^a   Lueken, Ulrike ^e   Jansen, Andreas ^a   Konrad, Carsten ^a,b   Gloster, Andrew T ^e   Gerlach, Alexander L ^f   Ströhle, Andreas ^g   Wittmann, André ^g   Pfleiderer, Bettina ^c   Gauggel, Siegfried ^d   Wittchen, Ulrich ^e   Arolt, Volker ^b   Kircher, Tilo ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b Departments of Psychiatry   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^g CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agoraphobia; Cognitive behavioral therapy; Fear conditioning; Functional connectivity; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Hippocampus; Panic disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY INDEX; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAMILTON ANXIETY SCALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MOBILITY INVENTORY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPY EFFECT; FEAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDITIONING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANIC DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84902935013     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000359955     Document Type: Article

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