Fear from the heart: Sensitivity to fear stimuli depends on individual heartbeats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 6573-6582

  Garfinkel, Sarah N ^a   Minati, Ludovico ^a,b   Gray, Marcus A ^c   Seth, Anil K ^a   Dolan, Raymond J ^d   Critchley, Hugo D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Attention; Baroreceptor; Emotion; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; R WAVE; RAPID SERIAL VISUAL PRESENTATION; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; T WAVE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BARORECEPTOR; EMOTION; FMRI;

ADULT; AGING; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BLINKING; DIASTOLE; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRESSORECEPTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SYSTOLE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899785034     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3507-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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