Enhanced amygdala reactivity to emotional faces in adults reporting childhood emotional maltreatment
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Enhanced amygdala reactivity to emotional faces in adults reporting childhood emotional maltreatment.
In the context of chronic childhood emotional maltreatment (CEM; emotional abuse and/or neglect), adequately responding to facial expressions is an important skill. Over time, however, this adaptive response may lead to a persistent vigilance for emotional facial expressions. The amygdala and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) are key regions in face processing. However, the neurobiological co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1749-5016,1749-5024
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss007