Auditory selective attention modulated by tryptophan depletion in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 340, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 181-184

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^g Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory cortex; Electroencephalography; Event related potentials; Magnetoencephalography; Processing negativity; Serotonin; Tryptophan depletion

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; EAR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION;

EID: 0345268653     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00102-2     Document Type: Article

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