Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Stanford Health Policy
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Forum on Contemporary Europe
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Program on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
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MagnifyBrian Knutson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and CHP/PCOR AssociateDepartment of Psychology
470 Jordan Hall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2130
Research Interests
the neural basis of emotional experience and expression, explored through methods including self-report, measurement of nonverbal behavior, psychopharmacology, and functional brain imaging
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Journal Articles
Affective Influence on Judgments and Decisions: Moving Towards Core Mechanisms
P Winkielman, Brian Knutson
Review of General Psychology vol. 11, 2 (2007)
Ventral Striatal Hyporesponsiveness During Reward Anticipation in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
A Scheres, MP MIlham, Brian Knutson, FX Castellanos
Biological Psychiatry vol. 61, 5 (2007)
Splitting the Difference: How Does the Brain Code Reward Episodes?
Brian Knutson, GE Wimmer
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences vol. 1104 (2007)
Linking Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine and Blood Oxygenation
Brian Knutson, SEB Gibbs
Psychopharmacology vol. 191 (2007)
Dysfunction of Reward Processing Correlates with Alcohol Craving in Detoxified Alcoholics
J Wrase, F Schlagenhauf, T Kienast, T Wustenberg, F Bermpohl, T Kahnt, A Beck, A Strohle, G Juckel, Brian Knutson, A Heinz
Neuroimage vol. 35, 2 (2007)
Neural Predictors of Purchases
Brian Knutson, S Rick, GE Wimmer, D Prelec, G Loewenstein
Neuron vol. 53 (2007)- Offline Testing of the ATHENA Hypertension Decision Support System Knowledge Base to Improve the Accuracy of Recommendations
Susana B. Martins, S Lai, S Tu, R Shankar, SN Hastings, Brian Knutson, N DiPilla, Mary K. Goldstein, B. B. Hoffman
AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings (2006) 
Reward-Motivated Learning: Mesolimbic Activation Precedes Memory Formation
RA Adcock, A Thangavel, S Whitfield-Gabrieli, Brian Knutson, GD Gabrieli
Neuron vol. 50, 3 (2006)
Distributed neural representation of expected value
Brian Knutson, J Taylor, M Kaufman, R Peterson, G Glover
Journal of Neuroscience vol. 25, 19 (2005)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging of reward prediction
Brian Knutson, JC Cooper
Current Opinion in Neurology vol. 18, 4 (2005)
Neural basis of financial risk taking, the
CM Kuhnen, Brian Knutson
Neuron vol. 47, 5 (2005)
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