Effect of levodopa on healthy volunteers' facial emotion perception: an FMRI study

• Published in: Clinical neuropharmacology Vol. 28; no. 6; p. 255
• Main Authors: Delaveau, Pauline, Salgado-Pineda, Pilar, Wicker, Bruno, Micallef-Roll, Joëlle, Blin, Olivier
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.11.2005
• Subjects: Aged; Amygdala - blood supply; Amygdala - drug effects; Cross-Sectional Studies; Dopamine Agents - pharmacology; Double-Blind Method; Emotions - drug effects; Facial Expression; Female; Functional Laterality; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Levodopa - pharmacology; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Middle Aged; Oxygen - blood

A link between the brain dopaminergic (DA) system and emotional processing seems to be supported by the DA nature of neural systems surrounding emotional recognition, the occurrence of emotional deficits in medical disorders involving a DA dysfunction, and the effect of DA agonists or antagonists on...