Noradrenergic enhancement of amygdala responses to fear

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-126

  Onur, Oezguer A ^a,b,c   Walter, Henrik ^a   Schlaepfer, Thomas E ^a,d   Rehme, Anne K ^a   Schmidt, Christoph ^a   Keysers, Christian ^e   Maier, Wolfgang ^a   Hurlemann, René ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Face; Fear; fMRI; Noradrenaline; Reboxetine

Indexed keywords

REBOXETINE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENERGIC UPTAKE INHIBITORS; ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MORPHOLINES; NOREPINEPHRINE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66749136974     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsn049     Document Type: Article

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