On the role of serotonin and effort in voluntary attention: Evidence of genetic variation in N1 modulation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 122-128

  Enge, Sören ^a   Fleischhauer, Monika ^a   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^b   Strobel, Alexander ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 HTTLPR; Bottom up attention; Event related potentials; Executive attention; Mental effort; Novelty oddball paradigm; Serotonin; Top down attention

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAPHE NUCLEUS; SENSORY CORTEX; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 78149408826     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.07.021     Document Type: Article

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