Changes in male brain responses to emotional faces from adolescence to middle age.

Journal article

Facial emotion perception is fundamental to human social behaviour, and changes with age. Nevertheless, age-related differences in the relative activation of components of emotion processing networks are poorly understood. Thus we measured brain activity with event-related fMRI in 40 right handed healthy male controls, age range 8-50 years, during implicit processing of fearful, disgusted, and a control condition of neutral facial expressions. There was a significant negative correlation betw...

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Authors: Deeley, Q; Daly, E; Azuma, R; Surguladze, S; Giampietro, V

• Journal: NeuroImage
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 389-397
• Publication date: 2008-03-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.11.023
• EISSN: 1095-9572
• ISSN: 1053-8119
• Language: English
• Keywords: Social Perception; Adult; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Facial Expression; Fear; Child; Limbic System; Humans; Adolescent; Middle Aged; Emotions; Visual Cortex; Male; Brain