Orbitofrontal cortex reactivity to angry facial expression in a social interaction correlates with aggressive behavior

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3057-3063

  Beyer, Frederike ^a   Münte, Thomas F ^a   Göttlich, Martin ^a   Krämer, Ulrike M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggression; Anger; FMRI

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANGER; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MEDIAL ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; THALAMUS; VIDEORECORDING; ADULT; BLOOD; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN RELATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS; TIME FACTOR; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84973427397     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu101     Document Type: Article

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