Discrete Neural Correlates for the Recognition of Negative Emotions: Insights from Frontotemporal Dementia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Kumfor, Fiona ^a,b   Irish, Muireann ^a,b   Hodges, John R ^a,b   Piguet, Olivier ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRETE NEURAL CORRELATES; DISGUST; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GRAY MATTER; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; INSULA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGATIVE EMOTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; RECOGNITION; SADNESS; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SURPRISE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84879271015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067457     Document Type: Article

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