Anticipation of monetary gain but not loss in healthy older adults

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 787-791

  Larkin, Gregory R Samanez ^a   Gibbs, Sasha E B ^a,b   Khanna, Kabir ^a   Nielsen, Lisbeth ^c   Carstensen, Laura L ^a   Knutson, Brian ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD;

EID: 34249718350     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1894     Document Type: Article

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