Individual differences in social behavior predict amygdala response to fearful facial expressions in Williams syndrome

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1283-1288

  Haas, Brian W ^a   Hoeft, Fumiko ^a   Searcy, Yvonne M ^b   Mills, Debra ^c   Bellugi, Ursula ^b   Reiss, Allan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Social fearlessness; Social neuroscience; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RESPONSE TIME; SALK INSTITUTE SOCIABILITY QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 77949772108     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.12.030     Document Type: Article

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