The D2 dopamine receptor gene variant C957T affects human fear conditioning and aversive priming

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 103-109

  Huertas, E ^a   Ponce, G ^b,c   Koeneke, M A ^a,b   Poch, C ^a   Espana Serrano L ^b,c   Palomo, T ^b,c   Jimenez Arriero J A ^b,c   Hoenicka, J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

ANKK1; Aversive priming; Cognitive bias; DRD2; Fear conditioning; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; ANKYRIN REPEAT AND KINASE DOMAIN 1; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; C957T; CONDITIONING; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TAQIA;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CYSTEINE; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FACE; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; THREONINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75749104116     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2009.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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