A genetically mediated bias in decision making driven by failure of amygdala control

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 5985-5991

  Roiser, Jonathan P ^a   De Martino, Benedetto ^b   Tan, Geoffrey C Y ^b,c   Kumaran, Dharshan ^b   Seymour, Ben ^b,d   Wood, Nicholas W ^c   Dolan, Raymond J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

5 HTTLPR GENE; ALLELE; AMBIGUITY; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONEY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65949115501     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0407-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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