Specific brain processing of facial expressions in people with alexithymia: An H215O-PET study

Brain

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1474-1484

  Kano, Michiko ^a   Fukudo, Shin ^a   Gyoba, Jiro ^b   Kamachi, Miyuki ^c   Tagawa, Masaaki ^a   Mochizuki, Hideki ^a   Itoh, Masatoshi ^b   Hongo, Michio ^a   Yanai, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACC; Alexithymia; Facial expression; Lateralization; PET

Indexed keywords

WATER O 15;

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INSULA; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOGENESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STRESS;

EID: 0037677566     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg131     Document Type: Article

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