Frontal glutamate and reward processing in adolescence and adulthood

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3087-3099

  Gleich, Tobias ^a,c   Lorenz, Robert C ^a,b   Pöhland, Lydia ^a   Raufelder, Diana ^d   Deserno, Lorenz ^a,f   Beck, Anne ^a   Heinz, Andreas ^a   Kühn, Simone ^a,e   Gallinat, Jürgen ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Excellence Cluster NeuroCure   (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Aging; fMRI; Glutamate; MRS; Reward processing; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BARRATT IMPULSIVENESS SCALE; BOLD SIGNAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REWARD; VENTRAL STRIATUM; AGE; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR RATING SCALE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; VENTRAL STRIATUM;

EID: 84942372276     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0844-3     Document Type: Article

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