Neural activity associated with self-reflection

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Herwig, Uwe ^a,b   Kaffenberger, Tina ^a   Schell, Caroline ^a,c   Jäncke, Lutz ^d   Brühl, Annette B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861330292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-13-52     Document Type: Article

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