They are laughing at me: Cerebral mediation of cognitive biases in social anxiety

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Kreifelts, Benjamin ^a   Brück, Carolin ^a   Ritter, Jan ^a   Ethofer, Thomas ^a   Domin, Martin ^b   Lotze, Martin ^b   Jacob, Heike ^a   Schlipf, Sarah ^a   Wildgruber, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE BIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ATTENTION NETWORK; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL REJECTION; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEAR; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LAUGHTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CUES; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEGOTIATING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84903384951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099815     Document Type: Article

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