The serotonin transporter and emotionality: Risk, resilience, and new therapeutic opportunities

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 510-512

  Murrough, James W ^a   Charney, Dennis S ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ALLELE; BRAIN REGION; CODON; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EMOTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; RISK; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 79952017976     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.01.019     Document Type: Note

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