Citation

Carlson JM, Greenberg T, Mujica-Parodi LR. Psychiatry Res. 2010; 182(3): 281-283.

Affiliation

Department of Biomedical Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.02.001

PMID

20483568

Abstract

We investigated anger-related variability in the BOLD fMRI response to crude/masked and detailed/unmasked fearful faces. Anger expression positively covaried with amygdala activation to crude fear, while trait anger negatively covaried with amygdala responses to detailed fear. This differential processing may trigger aggression without the subsequent inhibition associated with distress cues.

Language: en