Disgust and the insula: fMRI responses to pictures of mutilation and contamination

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 2347-2351

  Wright, P ^a   He, G ^a   Shapira, N A ^a   Goodman, W K ^a   Liu, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Disgust; Emotions; Fear; fMRI; Horror; Insula; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREAT; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 8444225754     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200410250-00009     Document Type: Article

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