Prefrontal cortical contribution to risk-based decision making

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1816-1828

  St Onge, Jennifer R ^a   Floresco, Stan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

anterior cingulate; orbitofrontal cortex; prelimbic cortex; rat; reversible inactivation

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FOOD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULA; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GABA AGONISTS; GYRUS CINGULI; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REWARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 77955937580     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp250     Document Type: Article

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