Sex-specific neural circuits of emotion regulation in the centromedial amygdala

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wu, Yan ^a   Li, Huandong ^b,c   Zhou, Yuan ^d   Yu, Jian ^a   Zhang, Yuanchao ^a   Song, Ming ^b,c   Qin, Wen ^e   Yu, Chunshui ^e   Jiang, Tianzi ^a,b,c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^e TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961588786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23112     Document Type: Article

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