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Who gets afraid in the MRI-scanner? Neurogenetics of state-anxiety changes during an fMRI experiment.
Neuroscience letters - 7 Nov 2014
Mutschler Isabella, Wieckhorst Birgit, Meyer Andrea H, Schweizer Tina, Klarhöfer Markus, Wilhelm Frank H, Seifritz Erich, Ball Tonio
Abstract excerpt
Experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) play a fundamental role in affective neuroscience. When placed in an MR scanner, some volunteers feel safe and relaxed in this situation, while others experience uneasiness and fear. Little is known about the basis and consequences of such inter-individually different responses to the general experimental fMRI setting. In this study emotional stimuli...
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