Knowing When to Stop: The Brain Mechanisms of Chasing Losses

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 293-300

  Campbell Meiklejohn, Daniel K ^a,b   Woolrich, Mark W ^c   Passingham, Richard E ^a   Rogers, Robert D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WARNEFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; loss chasing; motivation; pathological gambling; persistence; reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LOSS CHASING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 37849010799     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.05.014     Document Type: Article

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