Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 183, Issue 1 , Pages 89-91 , 30 July 2010

Motor impulsivity and the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

  • Roberto Goya-Maldonado

      Affiliations

    • Section of Experimental Psychopathology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    • Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
    • ,
  • Stephan Walther

      Affiliations

    • Section of Experimental Psychopathology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    • Department of Neuroradiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Joe Simon

      Affiliations

    • Section of Experimental Psychopathology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Christoph Stippich

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroradiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    • Department of Neuroradiology, University of Basel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Matthias Weisbrod

      Affiliations

    • Section of Experimental Psychopathology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    • Department of Psychiatry, SRH Hospital Karlsbad-Langensteinbach, Germany
    • ,
  • Stefan Kaiser

      Affiliations

    • Section of Experimental Psychopathology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    • Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 44 384 2630; fax: +41 44 384 2506.

Received 14 January 2009 ,Revised 25 March 2010 ,Accepted 8 April 2010.

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PII: S0925-4927(10)00119-8

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.04.006

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 183, Issue 1 , Pages 89-91 , 30 July 2010

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