Lateralization and gender differences in the dopaminergic response to unpredictable reward in the human ventral striatum

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1706-1715

  Martin Soelch, Chantal ^a   Szczepanik, Joanna ^b   Nugent, Allison ^b   Barhaghi, Krystle ^b   Rallis, Denise ^b   Herscovitch, Peter ^c   Carson, Richard E ^d   Drevets, Wayne C ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e LAUREATE INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Hemispheric; Motivation; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 3 RECEPTOR; RACLOPRIDE C 11;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; REWARD; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BASAL GANGLIA; BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RACLOPRIDE; REWARD; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955549915     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07642.x     Document Type: Article

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