Aspects of neuroticism and the amygdala: Chronic tuning from motivational styles

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3399-3404

  Cunningham, William A ^a   Arbuckle, Nathan L ^a   Jahn, Andrew ^a   Mowrer, Samantha M ^a   Abduljalil, Amir M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Motivation; Neuroticism; Personality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROSIS; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PERSONALITY; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AMYGDALA; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; OXYGEN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957314859     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.06.026     Document Type: Article

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