Impaired threat prioritisation after selective bilateral amygdala lesions

Cortex

Volumn 63, Issue , 2015, Pages 206-213

  Bach, Dominik R ^a,b   Hurlemann, Rene ^c   Dolan, Raymond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala lesion; Facial expression; Fear; Serial search; Threat; Urbach Wiethe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; LIPOID PROTEINOSIS; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIPOID PROTEINOSIS OF URBACH AND WIETHE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84907691548     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.08.017     Document Type: Article

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