Reduced intra-amygdala activity to positively valenced faces in adolescent schizophrenia offspring

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 123, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 126-136

  Barbour, Tracy ^a   Murphy, Eric ^a   Pruitt, Patrick ^a   Eickhoff, Simon B ^b,c   Keshavan, Matcheri S ^a,d   Rajan, Usha ^a   Zajac Benitez, Caroline ^a   Diwadkar, Vaibhav A ^a,e  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective response; Baso lateral nucleus; Centro medial nucleus; Development; Reward; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AFFECT; AMYGDALA; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 77957918668     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2010.07.023     Document Type: Article

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