Reduced amygdala response in youths with disruptive behavior disorders and psychopathic traits: Decreased emotional response versus increased top-down attention to nonemotional features

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 169, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 750-758

  White, Stuart F ^a,b,c   Marsh, Abigail A ^a,b,c   Fowler, Katherine A ^a,b,c   Schechter, Julia C ^a,b,c   Adalio, Christopher ^a,b,c   Pope, Kayla ^a,b,c   Sinclair, Stephen ^a,b,c   Pine, Daniel S ^a,b,c   Blair, R James R ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; DORSOMEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; EMOTION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LATERAL FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 84863908499     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.11081270     Document Type: Article

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