Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 164, Issue 1 , Pages 81-85 , 30 October 2008

Novelty seeking modulates medial prefrontal activity during the anticipation of emotional stimuli

  • Felix Bermpohl

      Affiliations

    • Berenson-Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany. Tel.: +49 30 450517176; fax: +49 30 450517962.
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  • Alvaro Pascual-Leone

      Affiliations

    • Berenson-Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Amir Amedi

      Affiliations

    • Berenson-Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • Department of Physiology and Program of Cognitive Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    • ,
  • Lotfi B. Merabet

      Affiliations

    • Berenson-Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Felipe Fregni

      Affiliations

    • Berenson-Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Jana Wrase

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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  • Florian Schlagenhauf

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Michael Bauer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
    • ,
  • Andreas Heinz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Gottfried Schlaug

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Functional Neuroimaging, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Georg Northoff

      Affiliations

    • Berenson-Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Magdeburg, Germany

Received 22 August 2007 ,Revised 8 November 2007 ,Accepted 22 December 2007.

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PII: S0925-4927(07)00265-X

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.12.019

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 164, Issue 1 , Pages 81-85 , 30 October 2008

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