Single-neuron responses in the human nucleus accumbens during a financial decision-making task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7311-7315

  Patel, Shaun R ^a,c   Sheth, Sameer A ^a   Mian, Matthew K ^a   Gale, John T ^a   Greenberg, Benjamin D ^d   Dougherty, Darin D ^b   Eskandar, Emad N ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BOOTSTRAPPING; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESPONSE TIME; SPIKE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REWARD;

EID: 84861324102     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0027-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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