Effects of experimental acute tryptophan depletion on acoustic startle response in females

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-9

  Norra, Christine ^a,d   Becker, Stefanie ^b   Herpertz, Sabine C ^c   Kunert, Hanns Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle response; Mood states; Prepulse inhibition; Serotonin; Tryptophan depletion

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYELID REFLEX; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MOOD CHANGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; STARTLE REFLEX; TRYPTOPHAN BRAIN LEVEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AFFECT; AMINO ACIDS; BLINKING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEROTONIN; STARTLE REACTION; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 38849162283     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-007-0753-z     Document Type: Article

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