Risk-sensitive decision-making in patients with posterior parietal and ventromedial prefrontal cortex injury

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Studer, Bettina ^a,b,c   Manes, Facundo ^d   Humphreys, Glyn ^e   Robbins, Trevor W ^a,b   Clark, Luke ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Lesion study; Posterior parietal cortex; Risk; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX INJURY; AGED; DECISION MAKING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK;

AGED; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; RISK; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 84922347914     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht197     Document Type: Article

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