Molecular genetics of attention

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1129, Issue , 2008, Pages 200-212

  Bellgrove, Mark A ^a   Mattingley, Jason B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; ADHD; APOE; Attention; DAT1; Dopamine; DRD4; Genetics; Spatial attention; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; CATECHOLAMINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER;

ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROSCIENCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

EID: 47249097520     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1417.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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