Influence of the catechol-O-methyltransferase val158met genotype on amygdala and prefrontal cortex emotional processing in panic disorder

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-20

  Domschke, Katharina ^a   Ohrmann, Patricia ^a   Braun, Miriam ^a   Suslow, Thomas ^a   Bauer, Jochen ^a   Hohoff, Christa ^a   Kersting, Anette ^a   Engelien, Almut ^a   Arolt, Volker ^a   Heindel, Walter ^b   Deckert, Jürgen ^a,c   Kugel, Harald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorder; COMT; Emotional faces; Endophenotype; fMRI

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORBITAL CORTEX; PANIC; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

ADULT; ALLELES; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC DISORDER; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 43049179831     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.04.016     Document Type: Article

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