Neural activation during processing of aversive faces predicts treatment outcome in alcoholism

Addiction Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 439-451

  Charlet, Katrin ^a   Schlagenhauf, Florian ^a,b   Richter, Anne ^c   Naundorf, Karina ^a   Dornhof, Lina ^a   Weinfurtner, Christopher E J ^a   König, Friederike ^a   Walaszek, Bernadeta ^d   Schubert, Florian ^d   Müller, Christian A ^a   Gutwinski, Stefan ^a   Seissinger, Annette ^e   Schmitz, Lioba ^e   Walter, Henrik ^a,e   Beck, Anne ^a   Gallinat, Jürgen ^a   Kiefer, Falk ^c   Heinz, Andreas ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c Central Institute of Mental Health   (Germany)

^d PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anger; anterior cingulate cortex; fear; follow up; implicit emotional face processing; relapse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BINGE DRINKING; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEURAL ACTIVATION; NEUROTOXICITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARIETAL GYRUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL AREA V3; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE CONTROL STUDY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; RECURRENT DISEASE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECURRENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84899407493     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/adb.12045     Document Type: Article

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