Enhanced occipital and anterior cingulate activation in men but not in women during exposure to angry and fearful male faces

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 326-334

  Fischer, Håkan ^a,d   Fransson, Peter ^b   Wright, Christopher I ^c   Bäckman, Lars ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d AGING RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 5344249459     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.4.3.326     Document Type: Article

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