Amygdala subnuclei response and connectivity during emotional processing

NeuroImage

Volumn 133, Issue , 2016, Pages 98-110

  Hrybouski, Stanislau ^a   Aghamohammadi Sereshki, Arash ^a   Madan, Christopher R ^a,b   Shafer, Andrea T ^a,c   Baron, Corey A ^a   Seres, Peter ^a   Beaulieu, Christian ^a   Olsen, Fraser ^a   Malykhin, Nikolai V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala connectivity; Amygdala subnuclei; Emotions; High resolution fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AMYGDALOID SUBNUCLEUS; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; BASAL AMYGDALA; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CENTROMEDIAL AMYGDALA; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LATERAL AMYGDALA; MALE; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONNECTOME; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONNECTOME; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84961770570     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.056     Document Type: Article

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