Beyond acute social stress: Increased functional connectivity between amygdala and cortical midline structures

NeuroImage

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1534-1541

  Veer, Ilya M ^a,b   Oei, Nicole Y L ^a,b   Spinhoven, Philip ^a   van Buchem, Mark A ^a,b   Elzinga, Bernet M ^a   Rombouts, Serge A R B ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Default mode network; Functional connectivity; Resting state fMRI; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL MIDLINE STRUCTURE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79960284292     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.074     Document Type: Article

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