Amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex activation during affective startle modulation: A PET study of fear

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1325-1331

  Pissiota, Anna ^a   Frans, Örjan ^a   Michelgård, Åsa ^a   Appel, Lieuwe ^b   Långström, Bengt ^b   Flaten, Magne Arve ^c   Fredrikson, Mats ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Uppsala Imanet   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Attention; Fear; Fear potentiated startle; Human; Regional cerebral blood flow

Indexed keywords

WATER O 15;

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVERSION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEAR; FEMALE; HAZARD; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PHOBIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; SPIDER; STARTLE REFLEX;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; GYRUS CINGULI; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SNAKES; SPIDERS; STARTLE REACTION; TEST ANXIETY SCALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0141613724     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02855.x     Document Type: Article

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