Internal focus of attention in anxiety-sensitive females up-regulates amygdale activity: an fMRI study

Journal of Neural Transmission

Volumn 121, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1417-1428

  Pfleiderer, Bettina ^a   Berse, Timo ^a   Stroux, Daniel ^a   Ewert, Adrianna ^a   Konrad, Carsten ^a,b   Gerlach, Alexander L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Anxiety sensitivity; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Interoception; Interoceptive sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY INDEX; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART BEAT; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART RATE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTEROCEPTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PANIC; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; GERMANY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; PERCEPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF REPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925805098     PISSN: 03009564     EISSN: 14351463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-014-1248-5     Document Type: Article

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