Adult attachment anxiety is associated with enhanced automatic neural response to positive facial expression

Neuroscience

Volumn 220, Issue , 2012, Pages 149-157

  Donges, Uta Susan ^a   Kugel, Harald ^b   Stuhrmann, Anja ^b   Grotegerd, Dominik ^b   Redlich, Ronny ^b   Lichev, Vladimir ^a   Rosenberg, Nicole ^a   Ihme, Klas ^a   Suslow, Thomas ^a,b   Dannlowski, Udo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attachment orientation; Automatic perception; Emotion; Facial expression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CLAUSTRUM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864742620     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.06.036     Document Type: Article

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