Emotion specific modulation of automatic amygdala responses by 5-HTTLPR genotype

NeuroImage

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 893-898

  Dannlowski, Udo ^a   Konrad, Carsten ^a,b   Kugel, Harald ^a   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^a   Domschke, Katharina ^a   Schöning, Sonja ^a   Ohrmann, Patricia ^a   Bauer, Jochen ^a   Pyka, Martin ^a   Hohoff, Christa ^a   Zhang, Weiqi ^a   Baune, Bernhard T ^c   Heindel, Walter ^a   Arolt, Volker ^a   Suslow, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

5 HTTLPR; Amygdala; Depression; FMRI; Genetics; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPPINESS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 77956226152     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.11.073     Document Type: Article

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