Political orientations are correlated with brain structure in young adults

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 677-680

  Kanai, Ryota ^a   Feilden, Tom ^b   Firth, Colin ^b   Rees, Geraint ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BBC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFLICT; EMOTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLITICS; SELF REPORT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATTITUDE; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; LONDON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POLITICS; SELF REPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955472032     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.017     Document Type: Article

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