Amygdala reactivity in healthy adults is correlated with prefrontal cortical thickness

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 49, 2010, Pages 16673-16678

  Foland Ross, Lara C ^a   Altshuler, Lori L ^b,c   Bookheimer, Susan Y ^b   Lieberman, Matthew D ^b   Townsend, Jennifer ^b   Penfold, Conor ^b   Moody, Teena ^b   Ahlf, Kyle ^b   Shen, Jim K ^b   Madsen, Sarah K ^a   Rasser, Paul E ^d,e   Toga, Arthur W ^a   Thompson, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650055779     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4578-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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