Blind rage? Heightened anger is associated with altered amygdala responses to masked and unmasked fearful faces

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 281-283

  Carlson, Joshua Michael ^a   Greenberg, Tsafrir ^a   Mujica Parodi, Lilianne R ^a  

^a St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anger; Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANGER; BRAIN MAPPING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956075726     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Adolphs R., Tranel D., Damasio H., Damasio A. Impaired recognition of emotion in facial expressions following bilateral damage to the human amygdala. Nature 1994, 372:669-672.
2. Demaree H.A., Everhart D.E., Youngstrom E.A., Harrison D.W. Brain lateralization of emotional processing: historical roots and a future incorporating "dominance". Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews 2005, 4(1):3-20.
3. Gordon H.L., Baird A.A., End A. Functional differences among those high and low on a trait measure of psychopathy. Biological Psychiatry 2004, 56:516-521.
4. Gur R.C., Sara R., Hagendoorn M., Marom O., Hughett P., Macy L. A method for obtaining 3-dimensional facial expressions and its standardization for use in neurocognitive studies. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2002, 115:137-143.
5. LeDoux J.E. The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life 1996, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London.
6. Liddell B.J., Brown K.J., Kemp A.H., Barton M.J., Das P., Peduto A., Gordon E., Williams L.M. A direct brainstem-amygdala-cortical 'alarm' system for subliminal signals of fear. Neuroimage 2005, 24:235-243.
7. Marsh A.A., Blair R.J. Deficits in facial affect recognition among antisocial populations: a meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 2008, 32:454-465.
8. Spielberger C.D. State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2 1999, Psychological Assessment Resources Inc., Lutz, FL.
9. Spielberger C.D., Gorsuch R.L., Lushene R.E. Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Self-Evaluation Questionnaire) 1970, Consulting Psychology Press, Palo Alto, CA.
10. Vuilleumier P., Pourtois G. Distributed and interactive brain mechanisms during emotion face perception: evidence from functional neuroimaging. Neuropsychologia 2007, 45:174-194.
11. Walter, B., Blecker, C., Kirsch, P., Sammer, G., Schienle, A., Stark, R., Vaitl, D., 2003. MARINA: an easy to use tool for the creation of MAsks for Region of INterest Analyses. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, New York, NY.