Psychiatry Research
Volume 135, Issue 1 , Pages 45-52 , 15 May 2005

Adolescent anorexia nervosa patients have a discrepancy between neurophysiological responses and self-reported emotional arousal to psychosocial stress

  • Marjo J.S. Zonnevylle-Bender

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stratenum 5.153, University Medical Center Utrecht, P.O. Box 85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 30 2509729; fax: +31 30 2505487.
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  • Stephanie H.M. van Goozen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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  • Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • Lucres M.C. Jansen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Annemarie van Elburg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • Herman van Engeland

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Received 24 July 2004 ,Revised 7 October 2004 ,Accepted 28 November 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2004.11.006

Psychiatry Research
Volume 135, Issue 1 , Pages 45-52 , 15 May 2005

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