The neural mechanisms by which testosterone acts on interpersonal trust

NeuroImage

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 730-737

  Bos, Peter A ^a   Hermans, Erno J ^b,c,d   Ramsey, Nick F ^e   Van Honk, Jack ^a,f  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Connectivity; FMRI; Orbitofrontal cortex; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRUST;

ADMINISTRATION, SUBLINGUAL; AGING; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SALIVA; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TESTOSTERONE; TRUST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861187641     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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