Disrupted effective connectivity between the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex in social anxiety disorder during emotion discrimination revealed by dynamic causal modeling for fMRI

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 895-903

  Sladky, Ronald ^a   Höflich, Anna ^a   Küblböck, Martin ^a   Kraus, Christoph ^a   Baldinger, Pia ^a   Moser, Ewald ^a,b   Lanzenberger, Rupert ^a   Windischberger, Christian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala; DLPFC; fMRI; orbitofrontal cortex; social anxiety disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CAUSAL MODELING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LIEBOWITZ SOCIAL ANXIETY SCALE; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANXIETY DISORDER; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84925215350     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht279     Document Type: Article

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