Role of the amygdala in decisions under ambiguity and decisions under risk: Evidence from patients with Urbach-Wiethe disease

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1305-1317

  Brand, Matthias ^a   Grabenhorst, Fabian ^a   Starcke, Katrin ^a   Vandekerckhove, Marie M P ^a,b   Markowitsch, Hans J ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Decision making; Emotional processing; Game of Dice Task; Iowa Gambling Task; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBIGUITY; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTIONALITY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIPOID PROTEINOSIS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MINERALIZATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; LIPOID PROTEINOSIS OF URBACH AND WIETHE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 33846117231     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.09.021     Document Type: Article

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