The effects of age, sex, and hormones on emotional conflict-related brain response during adolescence

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 99, Issue , 2015, Pages 135-150

  Cservenka, Anita ^a   Stroup, Madison L ^b   Etkin, Amit ^c   Nagel, Bonnie J ^a,d  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Age; FMRI; Hormones; Puberty; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL CONFLICT; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; PUTAMEN; RESPONSE TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PUBERTY;

EID: 84940440272     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2015.06.002     Document Type: Article

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