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The Feeling of Anxiety : Phenomenology and neural correlates / Känslan av ångest : Fenomenologi och neurala korrelat

<p>The feeling of anxiety, a conscious experience, is associated with uneasiness, painfulness, or disturbing suspense. The current paper presents the phenomenology of anxiety disorders based on diagnostic criteria and reviews neuroimaging studies on anxiety including dissociation studies. Activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, insula, temporal poles and amygdala suggest neural correlates of anxiety. The relevance of the neural correlates, how the feeling of anxiety differs from fear and worry, and the construct validity of anxiety are addressed. Anxiety and pain correlate with activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, which warrants further studies on the painfulness–anxiety relationship.</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:his-2273
Date January 2008
CreatorsLabbé, Daniel
PublisherUniversity of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, text

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