Comparison of brain activity correlating with self-report versus narrative attachment measures during conscious appraisal of an attachment figure

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue MAR2016, 2016, Pages

  Yaseen, Zimri S ^a   Zhang, Xian ^b   Christopher Muran, J ^c   Winston, Arnold ^a   Galynker, Igor I ^a  

^a Mount Sinai Beth Israei ^*  (United States)

^b Yaie Schooi of Medicine   (United States)

^c Adeiphi University   (United States)

Author keywords

AAI; Adult attachment; Attachment; Attachment measures; FMRI; RSQ

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOOD; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIONSHIP SCALE QUESTIONNAIRE; SALIENCE NETWORK; SELF REPORT; SEMANTICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84961683941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00090     Document Type: Article

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