Distant influences of amygdala lesion on visual cortical activation during emotional face processing

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1271-1278

  Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a,b   Richardson, Mark P ^c   Armony, Jorge L ^b,d   Driver, Jon ^b,e   Dolan, Raymond J ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARAMETRIC TEST; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 7044227642     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1341     Document Type: Article

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