Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 182, Issue 2 , Pages 160-164 , 30 May 2010

MRI-related anxiety levels change within and between repeated scanning sessions

  • Hanah A. Chapman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4J1
    • ,
  • Denise Bernier

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4J1
    • ,
  • Benjamin Rusak

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4J1
    • Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, 5909 Veteran's Memorial Lane, 8th floor, Abbie J. Lane Memorial Building, QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 2E2
    • Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, 5850 College Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 1X5
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, 5909 Veteran's Memorial Lane, 8th floor, Abbie J. Lane Memorial Building, QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 2E2. Tel.: +1 902 473 2433; fax: +1 902 473 4887.

Received 3 September 2009 ,Revised 8 December 2009 ,Accepted 11 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.01.005

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 182, Issue 2 , Pages 160-164 , 30 May 2010

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