Expert financial advice neurobiologically "offloads" financial decision-making under risk

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Engelmann, Jan B ^a   Capra, C Monica ^b   Noussair, Charles ^c   Berns, Gregory S ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; THALAMUS; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; ECONOMICS; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; INVESTMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INVESTMENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK; RISK-TAKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63449094457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004957     Document Type: Article

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