Acute tryptophan depletion in healthy males attenuates phasic cardiac slowing but does not affect electro-cortical response to negative feedback

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 255-263

  Van Der Veen, Frederik M ^a   Mies, Gabry W ^a   Van Der Molen, Maurits W ^b   Evers, Elisabeth A ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ERPs; Feedback; Heart rate; Mood; Performance monitoring; Serotonin; Tryptophan depletion

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FLUID INTAKE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AFFECT; AMINO ACIDS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEROTONIN; TIME PERCEPTION; TRYPTOPHAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 46649090709     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-008-1176-x     Document Type: Article

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