Emotion reactivity and regulation in late-life generalized anxiety disorder: Functional connectivity at baseline and post-treatment

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 200-214

  Andreescu, Carmen ^a   Sheu, Lei K ^b   Tudorascu, Dana ^b   Gross, James J ^d   Walker, Sarah ^a   Banihashemi, Layla ^b   Aizenstein, Howard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion regulation; Functional connectivity; late life generalized anxiety disorder

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; CITALOPRAM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HAMILTON ANXIETY SCALE; HAMILTON DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PATIENT WORRY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; STRIA TERMINALIS; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL GYRUS; WHITE MATTER; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECTS; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEPTUM NUCLEUS;

AGED; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CITALOPRAM; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 84928070956     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jagp.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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