Personality Traits Are Differentially Associated with Patterns of Reward and Novelty Processing in the Human Substantia Nigra/Ventral Tegmental Area

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-110

  Krebs, Ruth M ^a   Schott, Björn H ^a,b,c   Düzel, Emrah ^a,d  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dopamine; fMRI; memory; midbrain; novelty seeking; reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DOPAMINE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERSONALITY; PROBABILITY LEARNING; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REWARD; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57849125413     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.08.019     Document Type: Article

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