Neural and personality correlates of individual differences related to the effects of acute tryptophan depletion on future reward evaluation

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 55-64

  Demoto, Yoshihiko ^a   Okada, Go ^a   Okamoto, Yasumasa ^a   Kunisato, Yoshihiko ^a,f   Aoyama, Shiori ^a   Onoda, Keiichi ^c   Munakata, Ayumi ^b   Nomura, Michio ^b   Tanaka, Saori C ^d   Schweighofer, Nicolas ^g   Doya, Kenji ^e   Yamawaki, Shigeto ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute tryptophan depletion; Delay discounting; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Personality trait; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; REACTION TIME; REWARD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRYPTOPHAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855409401     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: 14230224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000328990     Document Type: Article

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