Striatal reward areas activated by implicit laughter induced by mimic words in humans: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 1621-1624

  Osaka, Naoyuki ^a   Osaka, Mariko ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laughter; Nucleus accumbens; Striatal reward center

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; REWARD; STRIATE CORTEX; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTOR CORTEX; NEOSTRIATUM; REWARD;

EID: 29144531839     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000181581.18636.a7     Document Type: Article

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