Reduced recruitment of orbitofrontal cortex to human social chemosensory cues in social anxiety

NeuroImage

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1401-1406

  Zhou, Wen ^a   Hou, Ping ^b,c   Zhou, Yuxiang ^b   Chen, Denise ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SOCIAL ANXIETY; SOCIAL ASPECT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWEAT;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CUES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SHYNESS; SMELL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SWEAT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952069714     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.12.064     Document Type: Article

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