Toward an affective neuroscience account of financial risk taking

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Wu, Charlene C ^a   Sacchet, Matthew D ^a,b   Knutson, Brian ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumbens; Activation likelihood estimation; Fmri; Insula; Meta analysis; Neuroeconomics; Neurofinance; Striatum

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXCITEMENT; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; NEUROSCIENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84870866188     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00159     Document Type: Article

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