Worry is associated with impaired gating of threat from working memory

Emotion

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 6-11

  Stout, Daniel M ^a   Shackman, Alexander J ^b   Johnson, Jeffrey S ^c   Larson, Christine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Cognition emotion interactions; Working memory; Worry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COST; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONALITY; FACE; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT WORRY; PHENOTYPE; THREAT; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTENTION; INDIVIDUALITY; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THINKING;

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PERSONALITY; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925615648     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/emo0000015     Document Type: Article

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