Age-related differences in neural activities during risk taking as revealed by functional MRI

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-15

  Lee, Tatia M C ^a   Leung, Ada W S ^a,b   Fox, Peter T ^c   Gao, Jia Hong ^d   Chan, Chetwyn C H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Insula; Neuroimaging; Orbitofrontal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; INSULA; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 44849136530     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsm033     Document Type: Article

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