Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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The relationship between individuals with fearful-avoidant adult attachment orientation and early neural responses to emotional content: An event-related potentials (ERPs) study.

Orrie Dan, Ghadir Zreik, Sivan Raz
Neuropsychology Summary & key facts 2019 16 citations

The study measured very early brain responses to emotional and neutral pictures in 119 undergraduate students (91 female, mean age 23.5 ± 3.6). It compared 30 fearful-avoidant people with 32 secure, 28 anxious-preoccupied, and 29 dismissive-avoidant participants. Fearful-avoidant individuals showed patterns in the early ERP components P1 (110–165 ms) and…

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Attachment and Relationship Dynamics Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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