The neural bases of emotion regulation

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 693-700

  Etkin, Amit ^a,b   Büchel, Christian ^c   Gross, James J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; THINKING; ANIMAL; BRAIN; EMOTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84944740173     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn4044     Document Type: Review

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