Stress sensitive healthy females show less left amygdala activation in response to withdrawal-related visual stimuli under passive viewing conditions

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 230-236

  Baeken, Chris ^a,b   Van Schuerbeek, Peter ^b   De Raedt, Rudi ^a   Vanderhasselt, Marie Anne ^a   De Mey, Johan ^b   Bossuyt, Axel ^b   Luypaert, Robert ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amygdala; fMRI; Healthy females; Lateralization; Perceived stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL STRESS;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84865419157     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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