Regulating emotion to improve physical health through the amygdala

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 523-530

  Song, Yiying ^a,b   Lu, Huanhua ^a,b   Hu, Siyuan ^b,c   Xu, Miao ^a,b   Li, Xueting ^a,b   Liu, Jia ^b,c,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Center for Collaboration and Innovation in Brain and Learning Sciences   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation ability; Individual difference; Physical health; The amygdala; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AMYGDALA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; EMOTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NERVE TRACT; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

AFFECT; AMYGDALA; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERSONALITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926471867     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu083     Document Type: Article

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