Individual differences in alexithymia and brain response to masked emotion faces

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 658-667

  Reker, Maraike ^a   Ohrmann, Patricia ^a   Rauch, Astrid V ^a   Kugel, Harald ^a   Bauer, Jochen ^a   Dannlowski, Udo ^a   Arolt, Volker ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a   Suslow, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Amygdala; Emotion; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Insula

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; INSULA; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBICULUM;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950461641     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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