Prefrontal cortical function and anxiety: controlling attention to threat-related stimuli.
Threat-related stimuli are strong competitors for attention, particularly in anxious individuals. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with healthy human volunteers to study how the processing of threat-related distractors is controlled and whether this alters as anxiety levels incre...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2004
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