Increased Activation of the Supragenual Anterior Cingulate Cortex during Visual Emotional Processing in Male Subjects with High Degrees of Alexithymia: An Event-Related fMRI Study

Alexander Heinzel,Ralf Schäfer,Hans-Wilhelm Müller,Andre Schieffer,Ariane Ingenhag,Simon B. Eickhoff,Georg Northoff,Matthias Franz,Hubertus Hautzel

Increased Activation of the Supragenual Anterior Cingulate Cortex during Visual Emotional Processing in Male Subjects with High Degrees of Alexithymia: An Event-Related fMRI Study

2010

Alexander Heinzel
Ralf Schäfer
Hans-Wilhelm Müller
Andre Schieffer
Ariane Ingenhag
Simon B. Eickhoff
Georg Northoff
Matthias Franz
Hubertus Hautzel

Background: One of the most prominent neurobiological models of alexithymia assumes an altered function of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) as the crucial neural correlate of ale

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Psychology
Perception
Anterior cingulate cortex
Alexithymia
Cingulate cortex
Neuroscience
Error-related negativity
Central nervous system
Facial expression
Cognitive psychology
Electrophysiology
Cognition
Functional imaging

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