Amygdala damage affects event-related potentials for fearful faces at specific time windows

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1089-1105

  Rotshtein, Pia ^a,b   Richardson, Mark P ^c   Winston, Joel S ^b   Kiebel, Stefan J ^b,d   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^e   Eimer, Martin ^f   Driver, Jon ^b,g   Dolan, Raymond J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion; ERP; Late P3; Medial temporal lobe epilepsy; P1; SPM5

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VISUAL STIMULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953814644     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20921     Document Type: Article

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