Distinct pathways of neural coupling for different basic emotions

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1804-1817

  Tettamanti, Marco ^a   Rognoni, Elena ^b   Cafiero, Riccardo ^c   Costa, Tommaso ^b   Galati, Dario ^b   Perani, Daniela ^a,c  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amygdala; DCM; Effective connectivity; Emotions; FMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL INTERACTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISGUST; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPROTECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; SADNESS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055172829     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.018     Document Type: Article

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