Reduced medial prefrontal-subcortical connectivity in dysphoria: Granger causality analyses of rapid functional magnetic resonance imaging

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Sabatinelli, Dean ^a   Mcteague, Lisa M ^b   Dhamala, Mukesh ^c   Frank, David W ^a   Wanger, Timothy J ^a   Adhikari, Bhim M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

depression; dysphoria; emotion; functional magnetic resonance imaging; granger causality; reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALYSIS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHORIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRANGER CAUSALITY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; STIMULUS; SUBCORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MEDIALIS CENTRALIS NUCLEUS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPRESSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VENTRAL STRIATUM;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VENTRAL STRIATUM; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84944449103     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2013.0186     Document Type: Article

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