The corpus callosum: A commissural road to anger and aggression

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2481-2488

  Schutter, Dennis J L G ^a,b   Harmon Jones, Eddie ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggression; Anger; Corpus callosum; Cortical asymmetry; Frontal cortex; Interhemispheric connectivity; Motivational direction

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANGER; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN STEM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EMOTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MOTIVATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

AGGRESSION; ANGER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORTICAL ASYMMETRY; FRONTAL CORTEX; INTERHEMISPHERIC CONNECTIVITY; MOTIVATIONAL DIRECTION;

AGGRESSION; ANGER; ANIMALS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS;

EID: 84889647673     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.07.013     Document Type: Review

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