Brain structural basis of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1435-1442

  Hermann, Andrea ^a   Bieber, Alexandra ^a   Keck, Tanja ^a   Vaitl, Dieter ^a   Stark, Rudolf ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cognitive reappraisal; Emotion regulation; Expressive suppression; VmPFC; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84914165173     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst130     Document Type: Article

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