Attachment style, affective loss and gray matter volume: A voxel-based morphometry study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1482-1489

  Benetti, Stefania ^a   McCrory, Eamon ^b   Arulanantham, Sobida ^a   De Sanctis, Teresa ^a   McGuire, Philip ^a   Mechelli, Andrea ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective loss; Attachment; Magnetic resonance imaging; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78349235474     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20954     Document Type: Article

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