Predicting cognitive behavioral therapy response in social anxiety disorder with anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala during emotion regulation

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 15, Issue , 2017, Pages 25-34

  Klumpp, Heide ^a   Fitzgerald, Jacklynn M ^a   Kinney, Kerry L ^a   Kennedy, Amy E ^a,b   Shankman, Stewart A ^a   Langenecker, Scott A ^a   Phan, K Luan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALA; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION CONTROL SCALE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION ASSESSMENT; EMOTION REGULATION QUESTIONNAIRE; EMOTION REGULATION QUESTIONNAIRE SUPPRESSION SUBSCALE; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HAMILTON DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; HUMAN; LIEBOWITZ SOCIAL ANXIETY SCALE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE ASSESSMENT; MENTAL PATIENT; NEUROANATOMY; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOBIA, SOCIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85018514332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2017.04.006     Document Type: Article

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