Synaptogenesis and heritable aspects of executive attention

Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 178-183

  Fossella, John A ^a   Sommer, Tobias ^c   Fan, Jin ^a   Pfaff, Don ^b   Posner, Michael I ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Development; Genetics; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ALLELES; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; COGNITION DISORDERS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MENTAL RETARDATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RGS PROTEINS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTOSOMAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25;

EID: 0141633046     PISSN: 10804013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrdd.10078     Document Type: Review

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