Amygdala activation during masked presentation of emotional faces
H Kugel, T Suslow, P Ohrmann, J Bauer, W Schwindt, W Heindel, V Arolt · RöFo - Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Röntgenstrahlen und der bildgebenden Verfahren · 2005 · Heft 04
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Purpose: The amygdala has a central role in processing threat-related emotional cues. We investigated the involvement of the amygdala in emotional processing of masked fearful and angry faces, taking advantage of high T2* contrast at 3 T, Methods: 9 Volunteers have been included so far in the study. Subjects were presented with alternating 30s blocks of masked fearful, angry, happy, neutral faces and a no-face control, presented twice per second in random order. Participants were instructed to observe the pictures and memorise the faces. FMRI data were acquired at 3 Tesla (Intera, PMS) using single shot EPI (TR=…
