Functional brain activation to emotionally valenced faces in school-aged children with a history of preschool-onset major depression

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1035-1042

  Barch, Deanna M ^a,b,c   Gaffrey, Michael S ^a   Botteron, Kelly N ^a,c   Belden, Andrew C ^a   Luby, Joan L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; childhood; emotional processing; fMRI; limbic system; major depression

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; ONSET AGE; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMOTIONS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84869087602     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.06.009     Document Type: Article

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