Delay Discounting Correlates with Proportional Lateral Frontal Cortex Volumes

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 710-713

  Bjork, James M ^a   Momenan, Reza ^b   Hommer, Daniel W ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; decision making; delay discounting; frontal cortex; gray matter; impulsivity; magnetic resonance imaging; MRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REWARD; SKULL;

EID: 62749093177     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.11.023     Document Type: Article

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