Anger under Control: Neural Correlates of Frustration as a Function of Trait Aggression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Pawliczek, Christina M ^a,b   Derntl, Birgit ^a,b   Kellermann, Thilo ^a,b   Gur, Ruben C ^c   Schneider, Frank ^a,b   Habel, Ute ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JARA Translational Brain Medicine   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRUSTRATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULA; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANGER; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; AMYGDALA; ANGER; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; FRUSTRATION; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885816080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078503     Document Type: Article

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