Mesolimbic interaction of emotional valence and reward improves memory formation

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1000-1008

  Wittmann, Bianca C ^a   Schiltz, Kolja ^b   Boehler, C Nico ^c   Düzel, Emrah ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Emotion; Hippocampus; Midbrain; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMBIC CORTEX; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; REWARD; STIMULUS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REWARD;

EID: 39149118872     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.11.020     Document Type: Article

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