Decision making in the ageing brain: Changes in affective and motivational circuits

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 278-289

  Samanez Larkin, Gregory R ^a   Knutson, Brian ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGING; BRAIN MATURATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; FINANCE; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; WELLBEING; AGED; BRAIN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; NERVE NET;

EID: 84928214280     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3917     Document Type: Review

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