Brain Activation Patterns Associated with the Effects of Emotional Distracters during Working Memory Maintenance in

Jong-Il Park1, Gwang-Won Kim2, Gwang-Woo Jeong3

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Republic of Korea.; Research Institute of Clinical Medicine of Chonbuk National University-Biomedical Research Institute of Chonbuk National University Hospital, Jeonju, Republic of Korea.

Psychiatry Investigation
|January 15, 2016
PubMed

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