Fear and the amygdala: Manipulation of awareness generates differential cerebral responses to phobic and fear-relevant (but nonfeared) stimuli

Emotion

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 340-353

  Carlsson, Katrina ^a   Petersson, Karl Magnus ^a,b,c   Lundqvist, Daniel ^a   Karlsson, Andreas ^a   Ingvar, Martin ^a   Öhman, Arne ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PHOBIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 8744226918     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.4.4.340     Document Type: Article

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