How dopamine enhances an optimism bias in humans

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 1477-1481

  Sharot, Tali ^a   Guitart Masip, Marc ^a,b   Korn, Christoph W ^c,d   Chowdhury, Rumana ^a,b   Dolan, Raymond J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LEVODOPA; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE;

AFFECT; ATTITUDE; CITALOPRAM; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEVODOPA; MALE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865273038     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.05.053     Document Type: Article

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