Neural basis of emotional decision making in trait anxiety

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 47, 2013, Pages 18641-18653

  Xu, Pengfei ^a   Gu, Ruolei ^b   Broster, Lucas S ^c   Wu, Runguo ^d   Van Dam, Nicholas T ^e,f,g   Jiang, Yang ^c   Fan, Jin ^f,g   Luo, Yue Jia ^h  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^g MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAIT ANXIETY; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ANXIETY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RISK-TAKING; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84887834264     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1253-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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