Volume of left amygdala subregion predicted temperamental trait of harm avoidance in female young subjects. A voxel-based morphometry study

Brain Research

Volumn 1125, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-93

  Iidaka, Tetsuya ^a   Matsumoto, Atsushi ^b   Ozaki, Norio ^a   Suzuki, Tatsuyo ^c   Iwata, Nakao ^c   Yamamoto, Yukiko ^d   Okada, Tomohisa ^d   Sadato, Norihiro ^d  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depression; MRI; TCI; VBM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TEMPERAMENT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HARM REDUCTION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 33751519767     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.09.015     Document Type: Article

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