Impact of brain tumour location on emotion and personality: A voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping study on mentalization processes

Brain

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2532-2545

  Campanella, Fabio ^a   Shallice, Tim ^b,c   Ius, Tamara ^a   Fabbro, Franco ^d,e   Skrap, Miran ^a  

^a SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^e SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Brain tumours; Emotion recognition; Personality; Theory of Mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALEXITHYMIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INSULA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORY OF MIND; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ALEXITHYMIA; BRAIN TUMOURS; EMOTION RECOGNITION; PERSONALITY; THEORY OF MIND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSONALITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906680051     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu183     Document Type: Article

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