Amygdala-centred functional connectivity affects daily cortisol concentrations: A putative link with anxiety

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Hakamata, Yuko ^a,b   Komi, Shotaro ^c   Moriguchi, Yoshiya ^a   Izawa, Shuhei ^d   Motomura, Yuki ^a   Sato, Eisuke ^e   Mizukami, Shinya ^b   Kim, Yoshiharu ^a   Hanakawa, Takashi ^a   Inoue, Yusuke ^f   Tagaya, Hirokuni ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Japan)

^e KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; BRAIN MAPPING; CONNECTOME; DEPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; BRAIN MAPPING; CONNECTOME; DEPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85027531773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-08918-7     Document Type: Article

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