Why Some People Discount More than Others: Baseline Activation in the Dorsal PFC Mediates the Link between COMT Genotype and Impatient Choice

Individuals differ widely in how steeply they discount future rewards. The sources of these stable individual differences in delay discounting (DD) are largely unknown. One candidate is the COMT Val158Met polymorphism, known to modulate prefrontal dopamine levels and affect DD. To identify possible...

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Autores principales: Gianotti, Lorena R. R., Figner, Bernd, Ebstein, Richard P., Knoch, Daria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2012
Materias:
Neuroscience
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3345569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22586360
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2012.00054

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