Conditioned Subjective Responses to Socially Relevant Stimuli in Social Anxiety Disorder and Subclinical Social Anxiety

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 221-231

  Tinoco González, Daniella ^a   Fullana, Miquel Angel ^a,b,c   Torrents Rodas, David ^a   Bonillo, Albert ^a   Vervliet, Bram ^d   Pailhez, Guillem ^b   Farré, Magí ^b   Andión, Oscar ^a,e   Perez, Víctor ^a,b,f   Torrubia, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^f CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety Disorders; Fear Conditioning; Fear Potentiated Startle; Panic Disorder; Social Anxiety Disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; AROUSAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PANIC DISORDER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REINFORCEMENT; STARTLE REFLEX;

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; AROUSAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PANIC DISORDER; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX, STARTLE;

EID: 84930752057     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: 10990879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.1883     Document Type: Article

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