Functionally distinct amygdala subregions identified using DTI and high-resolution fMRI

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1615-1622

  Balderston, Nicholas L ^a   Schultz, Douglas H ^a   Hopkins, Lauren ^a   Helmstetter, Fred J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; FMRI; Novelty; Streamline tractography

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AMYGDALA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BLOOD; CONDITIONING; DIENCEPHALON; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

AMYGDALA; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DIENCEPHALON; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84952922456     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsv055     Document Type: Article

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