Spider or no spider? neural correlates of sustained and phasic fear in spider phobia

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 656-663

  Münsterkötter, Anna Luisa ^a   Notzon, Swantje ^a   Redlich, Ronny ^a   Grotegerd, Dominik ^a   Dohm, Katharina ^a   Arolt, Volker ^a   Kugel, Harald ^a   Zwanzger, Peter ^a,b,c   Dannlowski, Udo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Wasserburg Am Inn   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

anticipatory anxiety; fear network; fMRI; neural correlates; phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BED NUCLEUS OF STRIA TERMINALIS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; PHOBIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER PHOBIA; STRIA TERMINALIS; THREAT; VISUAL STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; ETIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPIDER;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEAR; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SPIDERS;

EID: 84940899202     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.22382     Document Type: Article

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