Knowing no fear

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1437, 1999, Pages 2451-2456

  Sprengelmeyer, Reiner ^a   Young, Andrew W ^b   Schroeder, Ulrike ^a   Grossenbacher, Peter G ^c   Federlein, Jens ^a   Büttner, Thomas ^a   Przuntek, Horst ^a  

^a ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Basic emotions; Emotion recognition; Facial expression; Fear

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

EID: 0010614841     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0945     Document Type: Article

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