A polymorphism in GABRA2 is associated with the medial frontal response to alcohol cues in an fMRI study

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2169-2178

  Kareken, David A ^a,b   Liang, Tiebing ^a   Wetherill, Leah ^a   Dzemidzic, Mario ^a   Bragulat, Veronique ^a   Cox, Cari ^a   Talavage, Thomas ^c   O'Connor, Sean J ^a   Foroud, Tatiana ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Genetics; Neuroimaging; Olfaction; Reward; Risk

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA2; ALCOHOL; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; ALCOHOLISM; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENOTYPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDAL FRONTAL CORTEX; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ADULT; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; ALLELES; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ODORS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 78649532363     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2010.01293.x     Document Type: Article

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