GABA concentrations in the human anterior cingulate cortex predict negative BOLD responses in fMRI

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1515-1517

  Northoff, Georg ^a   Walter, Martin ^a   Schulte, Rolf F ^b   Beck, Johannes ^c   Dydak, Ulrike ^b   Henning, Anke ^b   Boeker, Heinz ^c   Grimm, Simone ^c   Boesiger, Peter ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLUTATHIONE;

ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BLOOD CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REST;

EID: 36448949845     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn2001     Document Type: Article

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