Making sense: Dopamine activates conscious self-monitoring through medial prefrontal cortex

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1866-1877

  Joensson, Morten ^a,b   Thomsen, Kristine Rømer ^a,b   Andersen, Lau M ^a   Gross, Joachim ^c   Mouridsen, Kim ^a   Sandberg, Kristian ^a,d   Østergaard, Leif ^a   Lou, Hans C ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Default mode; Dopamine; Medial prefrontal; Metacognition; Self awareness

Indexed keywords

CARBIDOPA; CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; DOPAMINE; LEVODOPA; CARBIDOPA, LEVODOPA DRUG COMBINATION; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DRUG COMBINATION;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; EXPLICIT MEMORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; METACOGNITION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; POWER SUPPLY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SELF MONITORING; THALAMUS; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; METABOLISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BRAIN WAVES; CARBIDOPA; CONSCIOUSNESS; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEVODOPA; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; METACOGNITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84927692801     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22742     Document Type: Article

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