Serotonin modulates early cortical auditory processing in healthy subjects. Evidence from MEG with acute tryptophan depletion

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 862-868

  Kähkönen, Seppo ^a,b   Ahveninen, Jyrki ^b   Pennanen, Sirpa ^c   Liesivuori, Jyrki ^c   Ilmoniemi, Risto J ^a   Jääskeläinen, Iiro P ^b,d  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Event related magnetic field; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Middle latency auditory magnetic field (MAEF); Serotonin; Tryptophan depletion

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING; HEMISPHERE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INGESTION; INSTRUMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MONAURAL HEARING; NEUROMAGNETOMETER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SEROTONIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 0036845449     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-133X(02)00357-3     Document Type: Article

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