Hemispheric Asymmetry for Affective Stimulus Processing in Healthy Subjects-A fMRI Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Beraha, Esther ^a   Eggers, Jonathan ^a   Hindi Attar, Catherine ^a   Gutwinski, Stefan ^a   Schlagenhauf, Florian ^a   Stoy, Meline ^a   Sterzer, Philipp ^a,b   Kienast, Thorsten ^a   Heinz, Andreas ^a,b   Bermpohl, Felix ^a,b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Berlin School of Mind and Brain   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPOROOCCIPITAL JUNCTION; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; UNCUS;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEALTH; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867283410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046931     Document Type: Article

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