Individual differences in trait anxiety are associated with white matter tract integrity in fornix and uncinate fasciculus: Preliminary evidence from a DTI based tractography study

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 188-192

  Modi, Shilpi ^a   Trivedi, Richa ^a   Singh, Kavita ^a   Kumar, Pawan ^a   Rathore, Ram K S ^b   Tripathi, Rajendra P ^a   Khushu, Subash ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Personality; Spielberger's State Trait Anxiety Inventory; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN FUNCTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNCINATE FASCICULUS;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FORNIX, BRAIN; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84868676921     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.10.007     Document Type: Article

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