Transdiagnostic neural correlates of affective face processing in anxiety and depression

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 621-631

  MacNamara, Annmarie ^a   Klumpp, Heide ^b   Kennedy, Amy E ^b,c   Langenecker, Scott A ^b   Phan, K Luan ^b,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; BOLD; depression; faces; fMRI; GAD; MDD; RDoC; SAD; threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INSULA; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL RECOGNITION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL RECOGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOBIA, SOCIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85018963204     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.22631     Document Type: Article

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