Regional brain function, emotion and disorders of emotion

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 228-234

  Davidson, Richard J ^a   Abercrombie, Heather ^a   Nitschke, Jack B ^a   Putnam, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERTRALINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN METABOLISM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0032927479     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(99)80032-4     Document Type: Article

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