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Life-threatening danger and suppression of attention bias to threat.

Yair Y Bar-Haim, Yael Y Holoshitz, Sharon S Eldar, Tahl I TI Frenkel, David D Muller, Dennis S DS Charney, Daniel S DS Pine, Nathan A NA Fox, and Ilan I Wald

Audio, Transactions of the IRE Profession... 167(6):694-8 (2010) PMID 20395400

Life-threatening danger is assumed to produce, in tandem, increases in both vigilance toward threat and stress-related symptoms, but no data test the validity of this assumption. The authors examined associations, in real time, among imminent life-threatening danger, stress-related symptoms, and vigilance.

DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09070956
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