Imaging the structure of the human anxious brain: A review of findings from neuroscientific personality psychology

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 167-190

  Montag, Christian ^a   Reuter, Martin ^a   Jurkiewicz, Magdalena ^b   Markett, Sebastian ^a   Panksepp, Jaak ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Personality; Structural brain imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIST; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84877938922     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/revneuro-2012-0085     Document Type: Article

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