Functional neuroanatomy of grief: An fMRI study

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 160, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1946-1953

  Gündel, Harald ^a,b   O'Connor, Mary Frances ^a   Littrell, Lindsey ^a   Fort, Carolyn ^a   Lane, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3042789621     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.160.11.1946     Document Type: Article

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