Dissociating Bottom-Up and Top-Down Mechanisms in the Cortico-Limbic System during Emotion Processing

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 144-155

  Comte, Magali ^a   Schön, Daniele ^b   Coull, Jennifer T ^c   Reynaud, Emmanuelle ^a   Khalfa, Stéphanie ^a   Belzeaux, Raoul ^d,e   Ibrahim, El Chérif ^e,f   Guedj, Eric ^a   Blin, Olivier ^a,g   Weinberger, Daniel R ^h   Fakra, Eric ^a,d,g  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d HÔPITAL SAINTE MARGUERITE   (France)

^e FondaMental Foundation   (France)

^f University of Mediterranée   (France)

^g TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cortico limbic system; emotion; fMRI; psychophysiological interaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; DISSOCIATION; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CYTOLOGY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958051169     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu185     Document Type: Article

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