Gender differences in regional cerebral activity during sadness

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 226-238

  Schneider, Frank ^a   Habel, Ute ^a   Kessler, Christoph ^a   Salloum, Jasmin B ^a   Posse, Stefan ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; BOLD effect; Emotion; fMRI; Gender differences; Mood induction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0034083335     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0193(200004)9:4<226::AID-HBM4>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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