Functional connectivity of the human amygdala using resting state fMRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 614-626

  Roy, Amy Krain ^a   Shehzad, Zarrar ^a   Margulies, Daniel S ^d   Kelly, A M Clare ^a   Uddin, Lucina Q ^a   Gotimer, Kristin ^a   Biswal, Bharat B ^b   Castellanos, F Xavier ^a,c   Milham, Michael P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CHILD STUDY CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research   (United States)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN REGION; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REST;

EID: 60149100983     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.11.030     Document Type: Article

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