Serotonin, punishment, and behavioral inhibition in humans
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Reconciling the role of serotonin in behavioral inhibition and aversion: acute tryptophan depletion abolishes punishment-induced inhibition in humans.
The neuromodulator serotonin has been implicated in a large number of affective and executive functions, but its precise contribution to motivation remains unclear. One influential hypothesis has implicated serotonin in aversive processing; another has proposed a more general role for serotonin in behavioral inhibition. Because behavioral inhibition is a prepotent reaction to aversive outcomes,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2011.207.00558