Diminishing risk-taking behavior by modulating activity in the prefrontal cortex: A direct current stimulation study

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 46, 2007, Pages 12500-12505

  Fecteau, Shirley ^a   Knoch, Daria ^b,c,d   Fregni, Felipe ^a   Sultani, Natasha ^e   Boggio, Paulo ^e   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a,f  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Collegium Helveticum   (Switzerland)

^e MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^f University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Inhibitory control; Laterality; Risk taking behavior; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POLAROGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SAFETY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPREGULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 36248957109     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3283-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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