Acute Stress Impairs Self-Control in Goal-Directed Choice by Altering Multiple Functional Connections within the Brain's Decision Circuits

Neuron

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 621-631

  Maier, Silvia U ^a   Makwana, Aidan B ^a   Hare, Todd A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SELF CONTROL; TASTE ACUITY; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; BRAIN; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

BRAIN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; GOALS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938597146     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.07.005     Document Type: Article

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