Depressive patients are more impulsive and inconsistent in intertemporal choice behavior for monetary gain and loss than healthy subjects - An analysis based on Tsallis' statistics

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 351-358

  Takahashi, Taiki ^a   Oono, Hidemi ^b   Inoue, Takeshi ^c   Boku, Shuken ^c   Kako, Yuki ^c   Kitaichi, Yuji ^c   Kusumi, Ichiro ^c   Masui, Takuya ^c   Nakagawa, Shidn ^c   Suzuki, Katsuji ^c   Tanaka, Teruaki ^c   Koyama, Tsukasa ^c   Radford, Mark H B ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Symbiosis Group Limited   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depression; Discounting; Impulsivity; Inconsistency; Neuroeconomics; Tsallis' statistics

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; MOOD STABILIZER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

EID: 48049118313     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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