Variations in the serotonin-transporter gene are associated with attention bias patterns to positive and negative emotion faces

Biological Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 269-271

  Pérez Edgar, Koraly ^a   Bar Haim, Yair ^b   McDermott, Jennifer Martin ^c   Gorodetsky, Elena ^d   Hodgkinson, Colin A ^e   Goldman, David ^e   Ernst, Monique ^d   Pine, Daniel S ^d   Fox, Nathan A ^f  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^e National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

5 HTTLPR; Anxiety; Attention bias; Dot probe task; Intermediate phenotypes; Serotonin transporter gene polymorphism

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REACTION TIME; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 77349099475     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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