A genetic variation of the noradrenergic system is related to differential amygdala activation during encoding of emotional memories

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 45, 2009, Pages 19191-19196

  Rasch, B ^a,b,c,d   Spalek, K ^a,b   Buholzer, S ^a,b   Luechinger, R ^e   Boesiger, P ^e   Papassotiropoulos, A ^a,b   De Quervain, D J F ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ADRA2B; fMRI; Imaging genetics; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2B ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 73149117555     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907425106     Document Type: Article

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