Lateral prefrontal cortex contributes to maladaptive decisions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4401-4406

  Xue, Gui ^a   Juan, Chi Hung ^b,c   Chang, Chi Fu ^b,c   Lu, Zhong Lin ^d   Dong, Qi ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; Decision making; Random process

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALADJUSTMENT; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROIMAGING; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84863350767     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111927109     Document Type: Article

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