White-Matter Tract Connecting Anterior Insula to Nucleus Accumbens Correlates with Reduced Preference for Positively Skewed Gambles

Neuron

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 63-69

  Leong, Josiah K ^a   Pestilli, Franco ^b   Wu, Charlene C ^a   Samanez Larkin, Gregory R ^c   Knutson, Brian ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAMBLING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; AGED; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84953774905     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.015     Document Type: Article

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