An integrative neuroscience model of "significance" processing

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-47

  Williams, Leanne M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cognition; Emotion; Hippocampus; Integration; Medial forebrain bundle; Motivational arousal; Orienting; Prefrontal; Temporal continuum

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANXIETY DISORDER; AROUSAL; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; COGNITION; CONDUCT DISORDER; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULATION;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENETICS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NEUROSCIENCES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33644958195     PISSN: 02196352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219635206001082     Document Type: Review

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