Brain correlates of pro-social personality traits: A voxel-based morphometry study

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 293-299

  Coutinho, Joana F ^a   Sampaio, Adriana ^a   Ferreira, Miguel ^a   Soares, José M ^a   Gonçalves, Oscar F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Agreeableness; Extraversion; Structural MRI; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGREEABLENESS; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887621393     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-013-9227-2     Document Type: Article

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