title: Decision Making: A Role for the Amygdala in Translating Goals into Choices.
abstract: A new fMRI study shows that the human amygdala is involved in goal-directed planning, further finding that amygdala activation during planning is predictive of someone's willingness to forgo immediate small rewards in favor of delayed larger rewards.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA, and Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. Electronic address: ueli.rutishauser@cshs.org.
authors.forename: Ueli
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Rutishauser
mesh_terms: D000679:Amygdala; D003657:Decision Making; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012201:Reward