The state of the brain determines whether someone is a saver or a spender, a buyer or seller of financial instruments, and what type of actions a person will take to make money. These studies describe the role of neuroanatomy and neurobiology in financial decisions.
Adolescents, adults and rewards: comparing motivational neurocircuitry recruitment using fMRI. (Link)
Amygdala damage eliminates monetary loss aversion. (Link)
Dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex orchestrate normative choice. (Link)
Is avoiding an aversive outcome rewarding? Neural substrates of avoidance learning in the human brain. (Link)
Neural basis of the undermining effect of monetary reward on intrinsic motivation. (Link)
Neural predictors of purchases. (Link)
Neural responses to unattended products predict later consumer choices. (Link)
Processing of social and monetary rewards in the human striatum. (Link)
The neural basis of financial risk taking. (Link)
Ventromedial frontal lobe damage disrupts value maximization in humans. (Link)
