1. The Puzzle of Regional Brain Activity in and Anxiety: The Importance of Subtypes and Comorbidity
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Wendy Heller Jack B. Nitschke
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Brain activity and meditation ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,medicine.disease ,Comorbidity ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,medicine ,Anxiety ,medicine.symptom ,Psychiatry ,Psychology ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
The literature on brain activity in depression and anxiety is reviewed with an on highlighting discrepancies and inconsistencies. In particular, and posterior asymmetries have been reported for both depression anxiety, but the magnitude and direction of these asymmetries has been We propose that by identifying subtypes of depression and anxiety of these inconsistencies can be explained. In addition, we review suggesting that issues of comorbidity are important to consider in to account for regional brain activity in depression and anxiety.
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- 1998
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