Activity in medial prefrontal cortex during cognitive evaluation of threatening stimuli as a function of personality style

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 250-257

  Rubino, Valeria ^a   Blasi, Giuseppe ^a   Latorre, Valeria ^a   Fazio, Leonardo ^a   d'Errico, Immacolata ^b   Mazzola, Viridiana ^b   Caforio, Grazia ^a   Nardini, Marcello ^a   Popolizio, Teresa ^c   Hariri, Ahmad ^d   Arciero, Giampiero ^b   Bertolino, Alessandro ^a,c  

^a Section on Mental Disorders   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Psicoterapia Postrazionalista   (Italy)

^c IRCCSS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Fear; fMRI; Personality; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EATING DISORDER; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; EATING DISORDERS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PERSONALITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 34548036981     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2007.06.019     Document Type: Article

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