Executive subprocesses in working memory: Relationship to catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met genotype and schizophrenia

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 889-896

  Goldberg, Terry E ^a   Egan, Michael F ^a   Gscheidle, Tonya ^a   Coppola, Richard ^a   Weickert, Thomas ^a   Kolachana, Bhaskar S ^a   Goldman, David ^b   Weinberger, Daniel R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHIONINE; VALINE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DOPAMINE RELEASE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PARAMETRIC TEST; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIBLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0141791141     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.60.9.889     Document Type: Article

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