Humor Modulates the Mesolimbic Reward Centers

Neuron

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1041-1048

  Mobbs, Dean ^a   Greicius, Michael D ^a   Abdel Azim, Eiman ^a   Menon, Vinod ^a   Reiss, Allan L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMOR; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0346367069     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(03)00751-7     Document Type: Article

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