Resting posterior versus frontal delta/theta EEG activity is associated with extraversion and the COMT VAL158MET polymorphism

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 478, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 88-92

  Wacker, Jan ^a   Gatt, Justine Megan ^b,c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

COMT VAL158MET; Dopamine; Extraversion; Personality; Resting delta theta EEG activity; Rostral anterior cingulate cortex

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE; VALINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; THETA RHYTHM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DELTA RHYTHM; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REST; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953616306     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.04.071     Document Type: Article

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