Contagious yawning and the frontal lobe: An fMRI study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1744-1751

  Nahab, Fatta B ^a,b   Hattori, Noriaki ^a   Saad, Ziad S ^a   Hallett, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contagion; FMRI; Motor program; Urge; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex; Yawning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YAWNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; YAWNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149095129     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20638     Document Type: Article

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