Abnormal cortico-limbic connectivity during emotional processing correlates with symptom severity in schizophrenia

European Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 590-597

  Vai, B ^a,b,c   Sferrazza Papa, G ^a   Poletti, S ^a,b   Radaelli, D ^a,b   Donnici, E ^a   Bollettini, I ^a,b   Falini, A ^a,b   Cavallaro, R ^a   Smeraldi, E ^a,b   Benedetti, F ^a,b  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c LUMSA UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

BOLD fMRI; Dynamic causal modeling; Emotion; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EMOTIONAL PROCESSING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; AMYGDALA; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMOTION; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84931567692     PISSN: 09249338     EISSN: 17783585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2015.01.002     Document Type: Article

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