Altered amygdala connectivity within the social brain in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Bulletin

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 152-160

  Mukherjee, Prerona ^a,b   Whalley, Heather C ^a   McKirdy, James W ^a   Sprengelmeyer, Reiner ^c   Young, Andrew W ^d   McIntosh, Andrew M ^a   Lawrie, Stephen M ^a   Hall, Jeremy ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

approachability; fMRI; neural; psychophysiological interaction; psychosis; social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEXISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS;

APPROACHABILITY; FMRI; NEURAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL INTERACTION; PSYCHOSIS; SOCIAL COGNITION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONNECTOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84892655506     PISSN: 05867614     EISSN: 17451701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbt086     Document Type: Article

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