Amygdala recruitment in schizophrenia in response to aversive emotional material: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies

Schizophrenia Bulletin

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 608-621

  Anticevic, Alan ^a   Van Snellenberg, Jared X ^b   Cohen, Rachel E ^a   Repovs, Grega ^a   Dowd, Erin C ^a   Barch, Deanna M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala; emotion; fMRI; meta analysis; schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; EFFECT SIZE; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

AMYGDALA; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84860157846     PISSN: 05867614     EISSN: 17451701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbq131     Document Type: Article

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