Increased functional connectivity with puberty in the mentalising network involved in social emotion processing

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 314-

  Klapwijk, Eduard T ^a,b,f   Goddings, Anne Lise ^a,c   Burnett Heyes, Stephanie ^d   Bird, Geoffrey ^a,e   Viner, Russell M ^c   Blakemore, Sarah Jayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Acad Ctr Child and Adol Psychiat   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

FMRI; Functional connectivity; Hormones; Psychophysiological interaction; Puberty; Social brain

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PRASTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISGUST; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EMBARRASSMENT; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; GUILT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT ANTERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MENARCHE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTALISING NETWORK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL INTERACTION ANALYSIS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PUBERTY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; RIGHT POSTERIOR SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; RIGHT TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; SALIVA LEVEL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EMOTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HEAD MOVEMENT; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; NERVE NET; PUBERTY; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 84897120516     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.03.012     Document Type: Article

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