Neural representation of anxiety and personality during exposure to anxiety-provoking and neutral scenes from scary movies

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 36-47

  Straube, Thomas ^a   Preissler, Sandra ^a   Lipka, Judith ^a   Hewig, Johannes ^a   Mentzel, Hans Joachim ^a   Miltner, Wolfgang H R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; fMRI; Horror; Sensation seeking; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; THALAMUS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUESTIONNAIRES; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74049136547     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20843     Document Type: Article

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