Preferential Amygdala Reactivity to the Negative Assessment of Neutral Faces

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 847-853

  Blasi, Giuseppe ^a   Hariri, Ahmad R ^b   Alce, Guilna ^c   Taurisano, Paolo ^a   Sambataro, Fabio ^c   Das, Saumitra ^c   Bertolino, Alessandro ^a   Weinberger, Daniel R ^c   Mattay, Venkata S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; cingulate; facial expressions; fMRI; prefrontal cortex; social decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXISM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREJUDICE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349754175     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.06.017     Document Type: Article

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