Imbalanced neural responsivity to risk and reward indicates stress vulnerability in humans

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-35

  Admon, Roee ^a,b   Lubin, Gad ^c   Rosenblatt, Jonathan D ^b   Stern, Orit ^a,b   Kahn, Itamar ^d   Assaf, Michal ^e,f   Hendler, Talma ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Medical Corps   (Israel)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^e INSTITUTE OF LIVING   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala; fMRI; nucleus accumbens; predisposition; prospective study

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; REWARD; RISK-TAKING; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84870782504     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr369     Document Type: Article

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