Amygdala activity related to enhanced memory for pleasant and aversive stimuli

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 289-293

  Hamann, Stephan B ^a   Ely, Timothy D ^b   Grafton, Scott T ^a   Kilts, Clinton D ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0033360315     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/6404     Document Type: Article

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