Interactions between transient and sustained neural signals support the generation and regulation of anxious emotion

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-60

  Somerville, Leah H ^a   Wagner, Dylan D ^b   Wig, Gagan S ^c   Moran, Joseph M ^d   Whalen, Paul J ^b   Kelley, William M ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala; BNST; emotion; fMRI; insula; intolerance of uncertainty; unpredictability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR INSULA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET;

EID: 84870811607     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr373     Document Type: Article

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