Fear bradycardia and activation of the human periaqueductal grey

NeuroImage

Volumn 66, Issue , 2013, Pages 278-287

  Hermans, Erno J ^a,b,c   Henckens, Marloes J A G ^a,d   Roelofs, Karin ^a,e   Fernández, Guillén ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety disorders; Fear bradycardia; Freezing; Functional MRI; Periaqueductal grey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRADYCARDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; PUPIL DILATION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; BRAIN MAPPING; CATALEPSY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN MAPPING; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870022350     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.063     Document Type: Article

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