Increased amygdala activation to emotional auditory stimuli in the blind

Brain

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1729-1736

  Klinge, Corinna ^a   Röder, Brigitte ^b   Büchel, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Blind; Emotion; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 77953010069     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq102     Document Type: Article

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