A Functional MRI Study of Human Amygdala Responses to Facial Expressions of Fear Versus Anger

Emotion

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 70-83

  Whalen, Paul J ^a   Shin, Lisa M ^b   McInerney, Sean C ^c   Fischer, Håkan ^d   Wright, Christopher I ^c   Rauch, Scott L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANGER; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN;

EID: 0002175478     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.1.1.70     Document Type: Article

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