Risk Taking for Potential Reward Decreases across the Lifespan

Current Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1634-1639

  Rutledge, Robb B ^a,b   Smittenaar, Peter ^b   Zeidman, Peter ^b   Brown, Harriet R ^b   Adams, Rick A ^b   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a,c,d   Dayan, Peter ^e   Dolan, Raymond J ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK UCL CENTRE FOR COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHIATRY AND AGEING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; DECISION MAKING; DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; DECISION MAKING; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK-TAKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84976511967     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.017     Document Type: Article

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