Amygdalar activation associated with happy facial expressions in adolescents: A 3-T functional MRI study

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 979-985

  Yang, Tony T ^a,d   Menon, Vinod ^b   Reid, Amy J ^c   Gotlib, Ian H ^b   Reiss, Allan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MC 5018 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Amygdala; Emotion; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; AFFECT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; AMYGDALA; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 0042330139     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CHI.0000046886.27264.BA     Document Type: Article

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