Linking novelty seeking and harm avoidance personality traits to basal ganglia: Volumetry and mean diffusivity

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 219, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 793-803

  Laricchiuta, Daniela ^a,b   Petrosini, Laura ^a,b   Piras, Fabrizio ^a   Cutuli, Debora ^a,b   Macci, Enrica ^a   Picerni, Eleonora ^a,b   Chiapponi, Chiara ^a   Caltagirone, Carlo ^a,c   Spalletta, Gianfranco ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain volumes; Fractional anisotropy; Grey matter; Individual differences; Mean diffusivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BASAL GANGLION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; TEMPERAMENT; VOLUMETRY; ADOLESCENT; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BASAL GANGLIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; TEMPERAMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902382070     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0535-5     Document Type: Article

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