Is Social Phobia a "mis-communication" disorder? Brain functional connectivity during face perception differs between patients with social phobia and healthy control subjects

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Danti, Sabrina ^a,b   Ricciardi, Emiliano ^a,c   Gentili, Claudio ^b,c   Gobbini, Maria Ida ^d   Pietrini, P ^a   Guazzelli, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Face perception; fMRI; Functional connectivity; Social phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMETRY; SENSORY SYSTEM; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79954947542     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2010.00152     Document Type: Article

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