Functional and structural amygdala - Anterior cingulate connectivity correlates with attentional bias to masked fearful faces

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2595-2600

  Carlson, Joshua M ^a,c   Cha, Jiook ^b   Mujica Parodi, Lilianne R ^a,b  

^a St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Social perception; Superior temporal sulcus; Tempoparietal junction; Uncinate fasciculus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BACKWARD MASKING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; UNCINATE FASCICULUS;

AWARENESS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPOPARIETAL JUNCTION; UNCINATE FASCICULUS;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884814047     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.07.008     Document Type: Article

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