Remediation of childhood math anxiety and associated neural circuits through cognitive tutoring

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 36, 2015, Pages 12574-12583

  Supekar, Kaustubh ^a   Iuculano, Teresa ^a   Chen, Lang ^a   Menon, Vinod ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Childhood; FMRI; Intervention; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COGNITIVE REMEDIATION THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COGNITIVE TUTORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MATH ANXIETY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; WECHSLER INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT TEST; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN; WORKING MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY TEST BATTERY FOR CHILDREN; ANXIETY; CONNECTOME; EDUCATION; MATHEMATICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; THERAPY;

ANXIETY; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONNECTOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84941253571     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0786-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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