Effects of elevated plasma tryptophan on brain activation associated with the Stroop task

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 383-389

  Morgan, Rhian M ^a,b   Parry, Allyson M M ^a   Arida, Ricardo M ^a   Matthews, Paul M ^a   Davies, Bruce ^b   Castell, Linda M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central fatigue; Cognitive function; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROOP TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRYPTOPHAN BRAIN LEVEL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 33846514685     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-006-0609-7     Document Type: Article

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