Genetic variation in the schizophrenia-risk gene neuregulin I correlates with brain activation and impaired speech production in a verbal fluency task in healthy individuals

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3406-3416

  Kircher, Tilo ^a   Krug, Axel ^a   Markov, Valentin ^b   Whitney, Carin ^c   Krach, Sören ^a   Zerres, Klaus ^b   Eggermann, Thomas ^b   Stöcker, Tony ^d   Shah, Nadim Jon ^d,e   Treutlein, Jens ^f   Nöthen, Markus M ^g   Becker, Tim ^g   Rietschel, Marcella ^f  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACC; fMRI; NRG1; Schizophrenia; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPEECH DISORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUREGULIN-1; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66949163644     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20761     Document Type: Article

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