Stop the sadness: Neuroticism is associated with sustained medial prefrontal cortex response to emotional facial expressions

NeuroImage

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 385-392

  Haas, Brian W ^a,c   Constable, R Todd ^b   Canli, Turhan ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; fMRI; Medial prefrontal cortex; Neuroticism; Personality; Rumination; Sustained

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SADNESS; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EVALUATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 45849083501     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.04.027     Document Type: Article

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