Genetic variation in nicotinic receptors affects brain networks involved in reorienting attention

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 831-839

  Gießing, Carsten ^a,b   Neber, Tuija ^a   Thiel, Christiane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CHRNA4; Connectivity; fMRI; Genetics; Spatial; Visual

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ADULT; APOPROTEIN E GENE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHRNA4 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE NET; ORIENTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 80054099481     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.07.061     Document Type: Article

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