Variations in the TNF-α gene (TNF-α -308G→A) affect attention and action selection mechanisms in a dissociated fashion

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2523-2531

  Beste, Christian ^a   Baune, Bernhard T ^b   Falkenstein, Michael ^d   Konrad, Carsten ^c,e  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; ALLELES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 78049494400     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00561.2010     Document Type: Article

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