Fear and stop: A role for the amygdala in motor inhibition by emotional signals

NeuroImage

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1825-1835

  Sagaspe, Patricia ^a,b   Schwartz, Sophie ^b   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^b,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emotion; Fear; Frontal cortex; Functional MRI; Motor inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; DECISION MAKING; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEURAL INHIBITION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952693903     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.01.027     Document Type: Article

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