Increased amygdala and visual cortex activity and functional connectivity towards stimulus novelty is associated with state anxiety

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Ousdal, Olga T ^a,b   Andreassen, Ole A ^a   Server, Andres ^c   Jensen, Jimmy ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATE ANXIETY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; EMOTION; FACE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; EMOTIONS; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899768927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096146     Document Type: Article

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