Cerebellum anatomy predicts individual risk-taking behavior and risk tolerance.
Neuroimage
; 254: 119148, 2022 07 01.
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| ID: mdl-35346839
ABSTRACT
Human risk tolerance is highly idiosyncratic and individuals often show distinctive preferences when faced with similar risky situations. However, the neural underpinnings of individual differences in risk-taking remain unclear. Here we combined structural and perfusion MRI and examined the associations between brain anatomy and individual risk-taking behavior/risk tolerance in a sample of 115 healthy participants during the Balloon Analogue Risk Task, a well-established sequential risky decision paradigm. Both whole brain and region-of-interest analyses showed that the left cerebellum gray matter volume (GMV) has a strong association with individual risk-taking behavior and risk tolerance, outperforming the previously reported associations with the amygdala and right posterior parietal cortex (PPC) GMV. Left cerebellum GMV also accounted for risk tolerance and risk-taking behavior changes with aging. However, regional cerebral blood flow (CBF) provided no additional predictive power. These findings suggest a novel cerebellar anatomical contribution to individual differences in risk tolerance. Further studies are necessary to elucidate the underestimated important role of cerebellum in risk-taking.
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Imagen por Resonancia Magnética
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Sustancia Gris
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Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Humans
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En
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Neuroimage
Asunto de la revista:
DIAGNOSTICO POR IMAGEM
Año:
2022
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Article
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Estados Unidos