Antidepressant drug treatment modifies the neural processing of nonconscious threat cues.
BACKGROUND: The amygdala is believed to play a key role in processing emotionally salient, threat-relevant, events that require further online processing by cortical regions. Emotional disorders such as depression and anxiety have been associated with hyperactivity of the amygdala, but it is unknown...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2006
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