Influence of the COMT genotype on working memory and brain activity changes during development

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 222-229

  Dumontheil, Iroise ^a   Roggeman, Chantal ^a   Ziermans, Tim ^a   Peyrard Janvid, Myriam ^a   Matsson, Hans ^a   Kere, Juha ^a,b   Klingberg, Torkel ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Child development; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); genetics; gray matter; voxel based morphometry (VBM); working memory

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHIONINE; VALINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELES; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; CHILD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960261781     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.02.027     Document Type: Article

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