The Amygdala and Development of the Social Brain

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1008, Issue , 2003, Pages 91-101

  Skuse, David ^a   Morris, John ^a   Lawrence, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Behavior; Facial expression; Social brain

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MONOSOMY X; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

PRIMATES;

EID: 1342284171     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1301.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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