Sex moderates the association between symptoms of anxiety, but not obsessive compulsive disorder, and error-monitoring brain activity: A meta-analytic review

Psychophysiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 21-29

  Moser, Jason S ^a   Moran, Tim P ^a   Kneip, Chelsea ^a   Schroder, Hans S ^a   Larson, Michael J ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; ERN; Error related negativity; Obsessive compulsive; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANXIETY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84952682750     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12509     Document Type: Article

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