Neuroanatomy accounts for age-related changes in risk preferences

Michael A. Grubb; Agnieszka Tymula; Sharon Gilaie-Dotan; Paul W. Glimcher; Ifat Levy

doi:10.1038/ncomms13822

Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Neuroanatomy accounts for age-related changes in risk preferences

Michael A. Grubb,
Agnieszka Tymula,
Sharon Gilaie-Dotan,
Paul W. Glimcher,
Ifat Levy

Affiliations

Michael A. Grubb: Department of Psychology, Trinity College
Agnieszka Tymula: School of Economics, University of Sydney
Sharon Gilaie-Dotan: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
Paul W. Glimcher: Center for Neural Science, New York University
Ifat Levy: Section of Comparative Medicine and Department of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13822
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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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.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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