Increased amygdala activation to angry and contemptuous faces in generalized social phobia

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1027-1034

  Brook, David W ^a   Brook, Judith S ^a   Zhang, Chenshu ^a   Cohen, Patricia ^b   Whiteman, Martin ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANGER; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036841902     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.59.11.1027     Document Type: Article

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