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11409730

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-6-18
pubmed:abstractText
The present study used scores from Seligman's Attribution Style Questionnaire and [15O] water positron emission tomographic measurements of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) to investigate the relation between individual differences in dispositional pessimism and amygdala activity. During scanning 13 healthy non-snake-phobic females passively viewed a snake videotape. Using one-tailed tests, significant negative correlations were evident between pessimism scores, with low scores reflecting relatively more pessimism, and right (r=-0.60; p=0.014) and left amygdala rCBF (r=-0.53; p=0.032). These results extend previous neuroimaging findings in healthy subjects indicating a role for the amygdala in transient negative emotional states, and suggest that this multimodal brain region also is involved in more durable negative affects such as dispositional pessimism.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0959-4965
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
13
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1635-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Dispositional pessimism and amygdala activity: a PET study in healthy volunteers.
pubmed:affiliation
Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Group, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't