Increased cortical thickness in a frontoparietal network in social anxiety disorder

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2966-2977

  Brühl, Annette Beatrix ^a   Hänggi, Jürgen ^b   Baur, Volker ^b,c   Rufer, Michael ^c   Delsignore, Aba ^c   Weidt, Steffi ^c   Jäncke, Lutz ^b   Herwig, Uwe ^a,d  

^a Department of Psychiatry Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics University Hospital for Psychiatry Zürich ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdale; Anatomy; Anterior cingulate; Anxiety disorders; DLPFC; Dorsal attention network; Emotion processing; Hippocampus; Insula; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PHOBIA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902164359     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22378     Document Type: Article

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