Neuroticism and Brain Responses to Anticipatory Fear

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 643-652

  Kumari, Veena ^a   ffytche, Dominic H ^a   Das, Mrigendra ^b   Wilson, Glenn D ^a   Goswami, Sangeeta ^a   Sharma, Tonmoy ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BROADMOOR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c The Cognition Group   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; brain; fMRI; individual differences; neuroticism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PUTAMEN; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; OXYGEN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548848881     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.4.643     Document Type: Article

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