Lesion side matters - An fMRI study on the association between neural correlates of watching dynamic fearful faces and their evaluation in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue , 2014, Pages 321-328

  Labudda, Kirsten ^a   Mertens, Markus ^a   Steinkroeger, Christine ^a   Bien, Christian G ^a   Woermann, Friedrich G ^a  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion processing; Fear; FMRI; Lateralization; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FACE; FEARFUL FACES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VISUAL ACUITY;

AMYGDALA; EMOTION PROCESSING; FEAR; FMRI; LATERALIZATION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84892996582     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.10.014     Document Type: Article

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