When desire collides with reason: Functional interactions between anteroventral prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens underlie the human ability to resist impulsive desires

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1488-1493

  Diekhof, Esther K ^a   Gruber, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTIVATION; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 75349096656     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4690-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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