Sequence of information processing for emotions based on the anatomic dialogue between prefrontal cortex and amygdala

NeuroImage

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 905-923

  Ghashghaei, H T ^a   Hilgetag, C C ^a,c   Barbas, H ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; TRACER;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL DENSITY; CELL LABELING; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORTICOCORTICAL PROJECTION; EMOTION; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INNERVATION; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR MEDIAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 33947172809     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.09.046     Document Type: Article

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