Effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy on brain responses to subliminal and supraliminal threat and their functional significance in specific phobia

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 869-877

  Lipka, Judith ^a   Hoffmann, Marius ^a,b   Miltner, Wolfgang H R ^a   Straube, Thomas ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorder; awareness; cognitive behavioral therapy; functional magnetic resonance imaging; neural basis of psychotherapy; specific phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BACKWARD MASKING; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INSULA; NERVE POTENTIAL; PERCEPTION; PHOBIA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF REPORT; SPIDER; THREAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPIDERS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911379048     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.11.008     Document Type: Article

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