A direct amygdala-motor pathway for emotional displays to influence action: A diffusion tensor imaging study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 5974-5983

  Grèzes, Julie ^a,b   Valabrègue, Romain ^b   Gholipour, Bahar ^a   Chevallier, Coralie ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging; Motor system; Social responding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LATERAL INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TRACTOGRAPHY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; FACTUAL DATABASE; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911446164     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22598     Document Type: Article

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