Altered experience of emotion following bilateral amygdala damage

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 219-232

  Tranel, Daniel ^a,d   Gullickson, Greg ^b   Koch, Margaret ^b   Adolphs, Ralph ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Anderson Arnold and Associates   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EXPERIENCE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOTRAUMA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIPOID PROTEINOSIS OF URBACH AND WIETHE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33847127802     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: 14640619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546800444000281     Document Type: Article

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