Inactivating anterior insular cortex reduces risk taking

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 45, 2012, Pages 16031-16039

  Ishii, Hironori ^a   Ohara, Shinya ^a   Tobler, Philippe N ^b   Tsutsui, Ken Ichiro ^a   Iijima, Toshio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; INSULA; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RISK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; DECISION MAKING; GAMBLING; MALE; MOTIVATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 84868519121     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2278-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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