Amygdala responses to positively and negatively valenced baby faces in healthy female volunteers: Influences of individual differences in harm avoidance

Brain Research

Volumn 1296, Issue , 2009, Pages 94-103

  Baeken, Chris ^a   De Raedt, Rudi ^b   Ramsey, Nick ^c   Van Schuerbeek, Peter ^a   Hermes, Dora ^c   Bossuyt, Axel ^a   Leyman, Lemke ^b   Vanderhasselt, Marie Anne ^b   De Mey, Johan ^a   Luypaert, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amygdala; fMRI; Harm avoidance; Healthy female volunteer; Lateralization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMOTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PESSIMISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERAMENT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HARM REDUCTION; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349292077     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.08.010     Document Type: Article

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