Effect of acute tryptophan depletion on pre-frontal engagement

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 486-497

  Allen, Paul P ^a   Cleare, Anthony J ^a   Lee, Francis ^a   Fusar Poli, Paolo ^a,b   Tunstall, Nigel ^a   Fu, Cynthia H Y ^a   Brammer, Micheal J ^a   McGuire, Philip K ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Depression; Prefrontal cortex; Serotonin; Tryptophan; Verbal fluency; Working memory

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAL FRONTAL GYRUS; MOOD; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PHONOLOGICAL VERBAL FLUENCY TASK; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VOLUNTEER; WORKING MEMORY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AGGRESSION; AMINO ACIDS; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REFERENCE VALUES; TRYPTOPHAN; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33746867589     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-006-0444-x     Document Type: Article

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