Enhanced brain responsiveness during active emotional face processing in obsessive compulsive disorder

World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 349-363

  Cardoner, Narcís ^a,b,c,e   Harrison, Ben J ^c,f   Pujol, Jesús ^c,g   Soriano Mas, Carles ^a,c,d   Herńndez Ribas, Rosa ^a,b,c   López Solá, Marina ^c,e   Real, Eva ^a   Deus, Joan ^c,h   Ortiz, Hector ^c,i   Alonso, Pino ^a,b   Menchãn, José M ^a,b,e  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

^c Institut D'Alta Tecnologia Parc de Recerca Biom è Dica de Barcelona   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Functional imaging; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960787692     PISSN: 15622975     EISSN: 18141412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15622975.2011.559268     Document Type: Article

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