Working memory capacity predicts dopamine synthesis capacity in the human striatum

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1208-1212

  Cools, Roshan ^a,b   Gibbs, Sasha E ^a   Miyakawa, Asako ^a   Jagust, William ^a,c   D'Esposito, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Dopamine; Listening span; PET; Prefrontal cortex; Striatum; Working memory

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 38749089409     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4475-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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