Reduced emotion processing efficiency in healthy males relative to females

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 316-325

  Weisenbach, Sara L ^a,b   Rapport, Lisa J ^c   Briceno, Emily M ^c   Haase, Brennan D ^a   Vederman, Aaron C ^a   Bieliauskas, Linas A ^a,b   Welsh, Robert C ^a   Starkman, Monica N ^a   McInnis, Melvin G ^a   Zubieta, Jon Kar ^a,d   Langenecker, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect perception; Face emotion processing; Gender differences; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT PERCEPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; FACE; FACE EMOTION PROCESSING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENDER DIFFERENCES; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCES; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

AFFECT PERCEPTION; FACE EMOTION PROCESSING; GENDER DIFFERENCES; SEX DIFFERENCES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895143492     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss137     Document Type: Article

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