Tryptophan depletion disrupts the motivational guidance of goal-directed behavior as a function of trait impulsivity

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1362-1373

  Cools, Roshan ^a,d   Blackwell, Andrew ^b   Clark, Luke ^a   Menzies, Lara ^a   Cox, Sylvia ^c,e   Robbins, Trevor W ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Impulsivity; Motivation; Reward certainty; Self control; Serotonin; Tryptophan depletion

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BARRAT IMPULSIVITY SCALE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEPRESSION; DRINKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; IMPULSIVENESS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; GOALS; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 20544465659     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300704     Document Type: Article

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