Damage to association fiber tracts impairs recognition of the facial expression of emotion

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 48, 2009, Pages 15089-15099

  Philippi, Carissa L ^a   Mehta, Sonya ^a,b   Grabowski, Thomas ^a,b   Adolphs, Ralph ^c   Rudrauf, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTOOCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISUAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROSOPAGNOSIA; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 72849109164     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0796-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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