Amygdala activity to fear and anger in healthy young males is associated with testosterone

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 687-693

  Derntl, Birgit ^a,b,c   Windischberger, Christian ^a   Robinson, Simon ^a,d   Kryspin Exner, Ilse ^b   Gur, Ruben C ^e   Moser, Ewald ^a,e   Habel, Ute ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Faculty of Psychology   (Austria)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anger; Emotion recognition; Fear; FMRI; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANGER; BRAIN MAPPING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TESTOSTERONE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64049089027     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.11.007     Document Type: Article

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