Human cognitive flexibility depends on dopamine D2 receptor signaling

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 218, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 567-578

  Van Holstein, Mieke ^a,d   Aarts, Esther ^c   Van Der Schaaf, Marieke E ^a   Geurts, Dirk E M ^a   Verkes, Robbert J ^a   Franke, Barbara ^a,b   Van Schouwenburg, Martine R ^a   Cools, Roshan ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bromocriptine; Cognitive flexibility; DAT1; Set switching; SLC6A3; Striatum; Sulpiride

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; GENOMIC DNA; PLACEBO; SULPIRIDE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAT1 GENE; DOPAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BROMOCRIPTINE; COGNITION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SULPIRIDE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82955249192     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2340-2     Document Type: Article

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