Rolling the dice: The importance of mesolimbic dopamine signaling in risky decision making

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 248-

  Sugam, Jonathan A ^a   Carelli, Regina M ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; DECISION MAKING; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL TASK; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NOTE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; DOPAMINE; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE NET; RISK-TAKING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84869010798     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.173     Document Type: Note

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