Amygdala damage eliminates monetary loss aversion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3788-3792

  De Martino, Benedetto ^a,b   Camerer, Colin F ^a   Adolphs, Ralph ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain lesions; Decision making; Economics; Neuroscience; Prospect theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AVERSION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77649268119     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910230107     Document Type: Article

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