Neural correlates of intolerance of uncertainty

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 479, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 272-276

  Schienle, Anne ^a   Köchel, Angelika ^a   Ebner, Franz ^b   Reishofer, Gernot ^b   Schäfer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

FMRI; Posterior frontomedian cortex; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNCERTAINTY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

AFFECT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954143841     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.05.078     Document Type: Article

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