Brain white matter organisation in adolescence is related to childhood cerebral responses to facial expressions and harm avoidance

NeuroImage

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1394-1401

  Taddei, Matilde ^a   Tettamanti, Marco ^b   Zanoni, Annalisa ^a   Cappa, Stefano ^a,b   Battaglia, Marco ^a,b,c  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Event related potentials; Facial expressions; Fractional anisotropy; Harm avoidance; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ANGER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HAPPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; TRACTOGRAPHY; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84861470922     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.03.062     Document Type: Article

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