Trait aggressiveness is not related to structural connectivity between orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Beyer, Frederike ^a   Münte, Thomas F ^a   Wiechert, Juliana ^a   Heldmann, Marcus ^a   Krämer, Ulrike M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSIVENESS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SELF REPORT; STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; AGGRESSION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALA; ANGER; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903648351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101105     Document Type: Article

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