Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 173, Issue 2 , Pages 94-99 , 30 August 2009

Personality traits predict response to novel and familiar stimuli in the hippocampal region

  • Hamid Reza Naghavi

      Affiliations

    • Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
    • Institute for Cognitive Science Studies, Tehran, Iran
    • Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Roozbeh Hospital, 13185/1741 Tehran, Iran. Tel.: +98 21 22543240; fax: +98 21 55419113.
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  • Johanna Lind

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
    • ,
  • Lars-Göran Nilsson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Rolf Adolfsson

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Sciences and Psychiatry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
    • ,
  • Lars Nyberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
    • Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
    • Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Physiology Section, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Received 16 October 2007 ,Revised 25 August 2008 ,Accepted 16 September 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2008.09.011

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 173, Issue 2 , Pages 94-99 , 30 August 2009

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