The self-liking brain: A VBM study on the structural substrate of self-esteem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Agroskin, Dmitrij ^a   Klackl, Johannes ^a   Jonas, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF ESTEEM; STRESS; THEORY OF MIND; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF CONCEPT; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84900411264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086430     Document Type: Article

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