Moreover, measuring and imaging emotional responses simultaneously is problematic because explicit instructions to monitor and report emotional reactions can interfere with the affective responses one is attempting to measure [5].
The rs1006737 risk variant has been associated with increased amygdala functioning observed by magnetic resonance imaging during emotional processing; the enhancement of activation leads to impaired facial emotion recognition in BP patients 20, 23– 23.
This design allowed for a new insight to the emotional odor processing with imaging techniques.
One hundred eighteen MDD patients underwent structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (emotional facial expressions and executive functioning) and were clinically followed-up at 2 years.
There is an extensive body of literature on the possible lateralization of processes involved in the comprehension of linguistic vs. emotional prosody based on neuro-imaging methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Further support for the sensitivity of the amygdala to emotional context comes from few imaging studies using various parameters of fear conditioning paradigms, meaning of sounds such as crying, and accompanied unpleasant narrative via words or films [26], [31] [33].
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging and two emotional information processing tasks to examine frontal and limbic activation in ten patients with major depression and comorbid with preceding generalized anxiety (MDD/GAD) and ten non-depressed controls.
All face images used in the imaging task were presented as grayscale images, with adult and infant faces matched for emotional expression, as well as size and luminosity to minimize possible confounding effects of visual appearance.
Thirty healthy volunteers listened to spoken emotional narratives during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
To measure patient willingness to wait and emotional disutility of waiting for outpatient imaging test results.
