Cerebellum and Personality Traits

Cerebellum

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 43-46

  Petrosini, Laura ^a,b   Cutuli, Debora ^a,b   Picerni, Eleonora ^a,b   Laricchiuta, Daniela ^a,b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Diffusion tensor imaging; Embodiment; Emotion regulation; Personality traits; ROI and voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALEXITHYMIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; AWARENESS; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HARM AVOIDANCE; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NOVELTY SEEKING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERSISTENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD DEPENDENCE; TEMPERAMENT; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST;

CEREBELLUM; COHORT STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS;

EID: 84925481628     PISSN: 14734222     EISSN: 14734230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12311-014-0631-y     Document Type: Article

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