Downregulation of the posterior medial frontal cortex prevents social conformity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 33, 2011, Pages 11934-11940

  Klucharev, Vasily ^a,b,c   Munneke, Moniek A M ^a,d   Smidts, Ale ^b   Fernández, Guillén ^a,d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR MIDDLE FRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SHAM PROCEDURE; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051709574     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1869-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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