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September 10, 2025Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Functional atlas of emotional faces processing: a voxel-based meta-analysis of 105 functional magnetic resonance imaging studies

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PFPaolo Fusar‐PoliAPAnna PlacentinoFCFrancesco Carletti

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Voxel-based meta-analysis reveals distinct neural networks for processing emotional faces, indicating specific amygdala activation patterns.

Key Points

  • Increased brain activation was found during processing of emotional faces in various brain regions, including the amygdala.
  • Specifically, happy, fearful, and sad faces activated the amygdala, while angry or disgusted faces did not influence this region.
  • The study employed a voxel-based meta-analysis approach to synthesize data from 105 fMRI studies involving 1600 participants.
  • Neurofunctional maps produced provide valuable references for future studies on emotional facial processing in psychiatric disorders.

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Fusar‐Poli et al. (2009) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c199f49b7b07f3a061c0c3https://doi.org/10.1139/jpn.0953
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