Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1049-1056

  Damasio, Antonio R ^a   Grabowski, Thomas J ^a   Bechara, Antoine ^a   Damasio, Hanna ^a   Ponto, Laura L B ^a   Parvizi, Josef ^a   Hichwa, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ANGER; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FEAR; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; SELF STIMULATION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0033808257     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/79871     Document Type: Article

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