Blind rage? Heightened anger is associated with altered amygdala responses to masked and unmasked fearful faces

Joshua Michael Carlson; Tsafrir Greenberg; Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi

doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.02.001

Blind rage? Heightened anger is associated with altered amygdala responses to masked and unmasked fearful faces

Joshua Michael Carlson
, Tsafrir Greenberg
, Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi

Dept of Biomedical Engineering

Stony Brook University

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Abstract

We investigated anger-related variability in the BOLD fMRI response to crude/masked and detailed/unmasked fearful faces. Anger expression positively covaried with amygdala activation to crude fear, while trait anger negatively covaried with amygdala responses to detailed fear. This differential processing may trigger aggression without the subsequent inhibition associated with distress cues.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	281-283
Number of pages	3
Journal	Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging
Volume	182
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.02.001
State	Published - Jun 30 2010

Keywords

Amygdala
Anger
Functional magnetic resonance imaging

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