Amygdala activation and its functional connectivity during perception of emotional faces in social phobia and panic disorder

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1024-1031

  Demenescu, L R ^a,b   Kortekaas, R ^b   Cremers, H R ^c,d   Renken, R J ^b   van Tol, M J ^b,e   van der Wee, N J A ^f   Veltman, D J ^g   den Boer, J A ^b   Roelofs, K ^c   Aleman, A ^b,h  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Connectivity; Faces; Panic disorder; Social phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PANIC; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

EID: 84878628193     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: 18791379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2013.03.020     Document Type: Article

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