Effect of Schizotypy on Cognitive Performance and Its Tuning by COMT val158 Met Genotype Variations in a Large Population of Young Men

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 845-853

  Smyrnis, Nikolaos ^a,b,c   Avramopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Evdokimidis, Ioannis ^c   Stefanis, Costas N ^a   Tsekou, Hara ^b,c   Stefanis, Nicholas C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Catechol O methyltransferase; COMT; dopamine; executive function; prefrontal cortex; schizophrenia; schizotypy factors; sustained attention; working memory

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHIONINE; VALINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; COGNITION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; METHIONINE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; VALINE;

EID: 33947158684     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.07.019     Document Type: Article

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