A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Amygdala Responses to Human Faces in Aging and Mild Alzheimer’s Disease
Biological PsychiatryPublished 8 March 2007
Christopher I. Wright, Bradford C. Dickerson, Eric Feczko, Alyson Negeira, Danielle M. Williams
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The amygdala in patients with mild AD is excessively responsive to human faces relative to elderly controls, and these amygdala functional alterations may represent a physiologic marker for certain neuropsychiatric manifestations of AD.
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The amygdala in patients with mild AD is excessively responsive to human faces relative to elderly controls. These amygdala functional alterations may represent a physiologic marker for certain neuropsychiatric manifestations of AD.
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