Closing one's eyes to reality: Evidence for a dopaminergic basis of Psychoticism from spontaneous eye blink rates

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 377-380

  Colzato, Lorenza S ^a   Slagter, Heleen A ^b   van den Wildenberg, Wery P M ^c   Hommel, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Psychoticism; Spontaneous eye blink; Striatum

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149180037     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.10.017     Document Type: Article

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