Disruption of right prefrontal cortex by low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation induces risk-taking behavior

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 6469-6472

  Knoch, Daria ^a   Gianotti, Lorena R R ^c   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^d   Treyer, Valerie ^b   Regard, Marianne ^a   Hohmann, Martin ^a   Brugger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Inhibitory control; Laterality; Risk taking; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RISK-TAKING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33745787974     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0804-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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