Acute dopamine depletion with branched chain amino acids decreases auditory top-down event-related potentials in healthy subjects

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 111, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 167-173

  Neuhaus, Andres H ^a,b   Goldberg, Terry E ^a   Hassoun, Youssef ^a   Bates, John A ^a   Nassauer, Katharine W ^a   Sevy, Serge ^a   Opgen Rhein, Carolin ^a,b   Malhotra, Anil K ^a  

^a ZUCKER HILLSIDE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Branched chain amino acid (BCAA); Dopamine depletion; Event related potentials (ERP); Schizophrenia; Top down processing

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DEPLETION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOPAMINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROLACTIN; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 67349088965     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2009.03.023     Document Type: Article

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