Mental imagery affects subsequent automatic defense responses
Automatic defense responses promote survival and appropriate action under threat. They have also been associated with the development of threat-related psychiatric syndromes. Targeting such automatic responses during threat may be useful in populations with frequent threat exposure. Here, two experi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-06-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychiatry |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00073/full |