Neuropsychology of fear and loathing

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 352-363

  Calder, Andrew J ^a   Lawrence, Andrew D ^a   Young, Andrew W ^b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; CYTOLOGY; FEAR; HATE; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEAR; HATE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 0035348258     PISSN: 14710048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35072584     Document Type: Review

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