Neural correlates of automatic perceptual sensitivity to facial affect in posttraumatic stress disorder subjects who survived L'Aquila eartquake of April 6, 2009

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 374-386

  Mazza, Monica ^a   Catalucci, Alessia ^a   Mariano, Melania ^a   Pino, Maria Chiara ^a   Tripaldi, Simona ^a   Roncone, Rita ^a   Gallucci, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Affective priming; Amygdala; Emotional numbing; Insula; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC PERCEPTUAL SENSITIVITY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHQUAKE; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULA; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; PERCEPTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AFFECT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EARTHQUAKES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84865991832     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-012-9151-x     Document Type: Article

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