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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-1-30
pubmed:abstractText
This study examined regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) changes associated with visually induced sad affect in healthy elderly persons. Subjects viewed sadness-laden, happiness-laden, and emotionally neutral image sets while rCBF was recorded using [(15)O] water PET. The sad image set included human faces and scenery/objects ("scenes"). To control for secondary sensory processing, the neutral and happy comparison sets included exclusively either human faces or scenes. During the sad condition, the ventral prefrontal and temporal cortices were more active compared with happy and neutral scenes conditions and the thalamus was more active compared with happy and neutral faces conditions. Ventral prefrontal cortex and thalamus were associated with processing of sad visual stimuli, whether compared with neutral or happy stimuli. The specific findings associated with sad affect were contingent on the comparison stimuli content (scenes or human faces), not affect (i.e., comparison with neutral or happy conditions).
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0895-0172
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
15
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
35-44
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Regional cerebral blood flow changes during visually induced subjective sadness in healthy elderly persons.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA. sergio-paradiso@uiowa.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.