Men and women show distinct brain activations during imagery of sexual and emotional infidelity

NeuroImage

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1299-1307

  Takahashi, Hidehiko ^a,b   Matsuura, Masato ^c   Yahata, Noriaki ^d   Koeda, Michihiko ^c   Suhara, Tetsuya ^a   Okubo, Yoshiro ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Asai Hospital   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMAGERY; JEALOUSY; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JEALOUSY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MARRIAGE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33747806246     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.05.049     Document Type: Article

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