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SUBMITTER: Scharmuller W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4187275 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scharmüller Wilfried W Leutgeb Verena V Schöngaßner Florian F Hermann Andrea A Stark Rudolf R Schienle Anne A
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20131001 10
Recent symptom provocation studies that compared patients suffering from dental phobia with healthy controls identified hyperactivation of basal ganglia structures, but none have assessed striatal functional connectivity. We reanalyzed data from a previous functional magnetic resonance imaging study on dental phobia. Patients (20 men, 25 women) and healthy controls (18 men, 23 women) had been exposed to pictures showing dental treatment, and neutral contents. We conducted connectivity analyses v ...[more]