Structural and Functional Connectivity Changes in the Brain Associated with Shyness but Not with Social Anxiety

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Yang, Xun ^a   Kendrick, Keith Maurice ^a,b   Wu, Qizhu ^a   Chen, Taolin ^a   Lama, Sunima ^a   Cheng, Bochao ^a   Li, Shiguang ^a   Huang, Xiaoqi ^a   Gong, Qiyong ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INSULA; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEADY STATE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; SHYNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877600656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063151     Document Type: Article

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