Amygdala functional connectivity with medial prefrontal cortex at rest predicts the positivity effect in older adults' memory

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1206-1224

  Sakaki, Michiko ^a   Nga, Lin ^a   Mather, Mara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGE; BLOOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REST; STATISTICS; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AMYGDALA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REST; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879980706     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00392     Document Type: Article

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