Asymmetry of prefrontal cortex activities and catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met genotype in patients with panic disorder during a verbal fluency task: Near-infrared spectroscopy study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 452, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-67

  Tanii, Hisashi ^a   Nishimura, Yukika ^a   Inoue, Ken ^b   Koshimizu, Hiroyuki ^a   Matsumoto, Ryusuke ^a   Takami, Tetsuhei ^a   Hara, Naomi ^a   Nishida, Atsushi ^c   Okada, Motohiro ^a   Kaiya, Hisanobu ^d   Okazaki, Yuji ^e  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d Research Center for Panic Disorder   (Japan)

^e TOKYO METROPOLITAN MATSUZAWA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic dysfunction; Catechol O methyltransferase; Near infrared spectroscopy; Panic disorder; Verbal fluency task

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEOXYGENATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGENATION; PANIC; PATHOGENESIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENOTYPE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PANIC DISORDER; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; VALINE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59349085560     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.01.044     Document Type: Article

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