Variation of human amygdala response during threatening stimuli as a function of 5′HTTLPR genotype and personality style

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1517-1525

  Bertolino, Alessandro ^a,c,d   Arciero, Giampiero ^b   Rubino, Valeria ^a   Latorre, Valeria ^a   De Candia, Mariapia ^a   Mazzola, Viridiana ^b   Blasi, Giuseppe ^a,c   Caforio, Grazia ^a   Hariri, Ahmad ^e   Kolachana, Bhaskar ^c   Nardini, Marcello ^a   Weinberger, Daniel R ^c   Scarabino, Tommaso ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Psicoterapia Postrazionalista   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d IRCCSS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza ^*  (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear; fMRI; Genetic factors; Personality style; Serotonin transporter genotype

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COHORT STUDIES; EATING DISORDERS; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PERSONALITY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 20444428631     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.02.031     Document Type: Article

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