Personality is reflected in the brain's intrinsic functional architecture

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Adelstein, Jonathan S ^a   Shehzad, Zarrar ^b   Mennes, Maarten ^a   DeYoung, Colin G ^c   Zuo, Xi Nian ^a,d   Kelly, Clare ^a   Margulies, Daniel S ^e,f   Bloomfield, Aaron ^a   Gray, Jeremy R ^b   Castellanos, F Xavier ^a,g   Milham, Michael P ^g,h  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CHILD STUDY CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^f HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^h CHILD MIND INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONSCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESTING STATE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; REWARD; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SELF EVALUATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; BRAIN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; REST;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; PERSONALITY; REST;

EID: 82455217247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027633     Document Type: Article

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