Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 154, Issue 1 , Pages 13-20 , 15 January 2007

Amygdala reactivity predicts automatic negative evaluations for facial emotions

  • Udo Dannlowski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Str. 11, 48149 Münster, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 251 8357218; fax: +49 251 8356612.
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  • Patricia Ohrmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Str. 11, 48149 Münster, Germany
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  • Jochen Bauer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Str. 11, 48149 Münster, Germany
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  • Harald Kugel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Radiology, University of Münster, Germany
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  • Volker Arolt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Str. 11, 48149 Münster, Germany
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  • Walter Heindel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Radiology, University of Münster, Germany
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  • Thomas Suslow

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Str. 11, 48149 Münster, Germany

Received 8 April 2006 ,Revised 23 May 2006 ,Accepted 26 May 2006.

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PII: S0925-4927(06)00097-7

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2006.05.005

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 154, Issue 1 , Pages 13-20 , 15 January 2007

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