The effects of acute tyrosine and phenylalanine depletion on spatial working memory and planning in healthy volunteers are predicted by changes in striatal dopamine levels

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 654-663

  Mehta, Mitul A ^a,b   Gumaste, Deepa ^a   Montgomery, Andrew J ^a   McTavish, Sarah F B ^a,c   Grasby, Paul M ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dopamine; PET; Planning; Tyrosine depletion; Working memory

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; PHENYLALANINE; RACLOPRIDE; TYROSINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINE RELEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PLANNING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; CARBON ISOTOPES; CORPUS STRIATUM; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHENYLALANINE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RACLOPRIDE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TYROSINE;

EID: 24944504297     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-004-2128-8     Document Type: Article

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