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SUBMITTER: Carre JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3277369 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carré Justin M JM Fisher Patrick M PM Manuck Stephen B SB Hariri Ahmad R AR
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20101222 2
The amygdala is critically involved in mediating physiological and behavioral responses to threat. In particular, neuroimaging research indicates that the amygdala is highly responsive to facial signals of threat such as fearful and angry expressions. However, individuals differ substantially in both their relative sensitivity to threat and the magnitude of amygdala reactivity to facial signals of threat. Here, we report the novel finding that individual differences in trait anger are positively ...[more]