Neuroanatomy accounts for age-related changes in risk preferences

Tolerance for risk decreases with age, but it is not known whether this shift can be accounted for by a neurobiological marker. Here, authors show that the age-related decrease in risk tolerance is better accounted for by grey matter decreases in right posterior parietal cortex than by age per se.

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Main Authors: Michael A. Grubb, Agnieszka Tymula, Sharon Gilaie-Dotan, Paul W. Glimcher, Ifat Levy
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/ab01982258bf4843ba947f62ebc5c74e
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