Anatomical specificity of functional amygdala imaging of responses to stimuli with positive and negative emotional valence

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-70

  Ball, Tonio ^a,b   Derix, Johanna ^a,b   Wentlandt, Johanna ^a,b   Wieckhorst, Birgit ^c   Speck, Oliver ^d   Schulze Bonhage, Andreas ^a,b   Mutschler, Isabella ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotional valence; Functional MRI; Human; Probabilistic map

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EMOTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67349258552     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.02.022     Document Type: Article

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