The effect of the COMT val158met polymorphism on neural correlates of semantic verbal fluency

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 259, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 459-465

  Krug, Axel ^a   Markov, Valentin ^b   Sheldrick, Abigail ^b   Krach, Sören ^a   Jansen, Andreas ^a   Zerres, Klaus ^b   Eggermann, Thomas ^b   Stöcker, Tony ^c   Shah, N Jon ^b,c,d   Kircher, Tilo ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

BA 10; COMT; FMRI; Inferior frontal gyrus; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHIONINE; VALINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEMANTICS; VALINE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73449090857     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-009-0010-8     Document Type: Article

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