Neural basis of individual differences in impulsivity: Contributions of corticolimbic circuits for behavioral arousal and control

Emotion

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 239-245

  Brown, Sarah M ^a   Manuck, Stephen B ^a   Flory, Janine D ^b   Hariri, Ahmad R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; fMRI; Impulsivity; Individual differences; Prefrontal cortex; Response inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; AROUSAL; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL;

EID: 33745954401     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.2.239     Document Type: Article

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