Subcortical connections to human amygdala and changes following destruction of the visual cortex

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1449-1455

  Tamietto, Marco ^a   Pullens, Pim ^b   De Gelder, Beatrice ^a,b   Weiskrantz, Lawrence ^c   Goebel, Rainer ^b,d  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

AMYGDALA; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL CORTEX;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84864589270     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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