Detecting fearful and neutral faces: BOLD latency differences in amygdala-hippocampal junction

NeuroImage

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 805-814

  Reinders, A A T S ^a,b   Glascher J ^a,c   de Jong, J R ^b   Willemsen, A T M ^b   den Boer, J A ^b   Buchel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMYGDALA; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 33749261408     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.06.052     Document Type: Article

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