COMT val108/158 met genotype affects neural but not cognitive processing in healthy individuals

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 672-683

  Dennis, Nancy A ^a,b   Need, Anna C ^a   Labar, Kevin S ^a   Waters Metenier, Sheena ^a   Cirulli, Elizabeth T ^a   Kragel, James ^a   Goldstein, David B ^a   Cabeza, Roberto ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

COMT; FMRI; Genetic neuroimaging; Relational memory

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHIONINE; VALINE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VALINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749152868     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp132     Document Type: Article

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