Predicting risk-taking behavior from prefrontal resting-state activity and personality.

Risk-taking is subject to considerable individual differences. In the current study, we tested whether resting-state activity in the prefrontal cortex and trait sensitivity to reward and punishment can help predict risk-taking behavior. Prefrontal activity at rest was assessed in seventy healthy vol...

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Main Authors: Bettina Studer, Andreas Pedroni, Jörg Rieskamp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3792091?pdf=render