Amygdala responsiveness to emotional words is modulated by subclinical anxiety and depression

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 508-516

  Laeger, Inga ^a   Dobel, Christian ^a   Dannlowski, Udo ^a,c   Kugel, Harald ^a   Grotegerd, Dominik ^a   Kissler, Johanna ^b   Keuper, Katharina ^a   Eden, Annuschka ^a   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^a   Zwanzger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; DLPFC; Emotions; FMRI; Words

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGULAR GYRUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CALCARINE GYRUS; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL WORD; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR OCCIPITAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL GYRUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; INSULA; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL GYRUS; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SUBCLINICAL ANXIETY; SUBCLINICAL DEPRESSION; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; THALAMUS;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SEMANTICS; SEX FACTORS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862649416     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.05.036     Document Type: Article

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