• closedAccess   Stimulus appraisal modulates cardiac reactivity to briefly presented mutilation pictures 

      Perakakis, Pandelis; Mocaiber, Izabela; Garcia Pereira, Mirtes; Machado, Walter Pinheiro; Volchan, Eliane; De Oliveira, Letícia; Vila, Jaime Elsevier B.V. (2011-09)
      Emotional reactions to threatening situations can be either advantageous for human adaptation or unfavorable for physical and mental health if sustained over prolonged periods of time. These contrasting effects mostly ...