Gender differences in regional cerebral blood flow during transient self-induced sadness or happiness

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 859-871

  George, Mark S ^a,c   Ketter, Terence A ^a   Parekh, Priti I ^a   Herscovitch, Peter ^b   Post, Robert M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Affective illness; Cerebral blood flow; Cingulate; Emotion; Euphoria; Gender; Limbic system; Mood disorders; Positron emission tomography; Sadness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE EVENT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL;

EID: 0030298319     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(95)00572-2     Document Type: Article

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