Functional connectivity between the amygdala and prefrontal cortex in medication-naive individuals with major depressive disorder

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 417-422

  Kong, Lingtao ^a   Chen, Kaiyuan ^a   Tang, Yanqing ^a   Wu, Feng ^a   Driesen, Naomi ^b   Womer, Fay ^c   Fan, Guoguang ^a   Ren, Ling ^a   Jiang, Wenyan ^a   Cao, Yang ^d   Blumberg, Hilary P ^b   Xu, Ke ^a   Wang, Fei ^a,b  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d SHANDONG MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL FACE PARADIGM; EMOTIONAL STIMULI; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAMILTON SCALE; HARS SCORE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEGATIVE EMOTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84886704747     PISSN: 11804882     EISSN: 14882434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/jpn.120117     Document Type: Article

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