Anticipatory anxiety disrupts neural valuation during risky choice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3085-3099

  Engelmann, Jan B ^a,b   Meyer, Friederike ^a   Fehr, Ernst ^a   Ruff, Christian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision making; Emotion; fMRI; Neuroeconomics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EMOTION ASSESSMENT; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; NERVE FUNCTION; NEURAL VALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOTIVATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; OXYGEN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); RISK-TAKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923005241     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2880-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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