Planning, decision-making and the COMT rs4818 polymorphism in healthy males

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 757-763

  Roussos, Panos ^a   Giakoumaki, Stella G ^a   Pavlakis, Stefanos ^a,b   Bitsios, Panos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Dopamine; Emotion; Prefrontal cortex; Synonymous polymorphism

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 5Q; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EMOTIONALITY; GENE LOCUS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DOPAMINE; EMOTIONS; GAMBLING; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 38749109215     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.10.009     Document Type: Article

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