Trait anxiety affects decision-making differently in healthy men and women: Towards gender-specific endophenotypes of anxiety

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1598-1606

  de Visser, L ^a,b   van der Knaap, L J ^a,b   van de Loo, A ^a,b   van der Weerd, C M M ^a,b   Ohl, F ^a,b   van den Bos, R ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognition; Emotion; Humans; IGT; Sex differences; WCST

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSION; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952543496     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.01.027     Document Type: Article

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