COMT val158met polymorphism and neural pain processing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Schmahl, Christian ^a   Ludäscher, Petra ^a   Greffrath, Wolfgang ^b   Kraus, Anja ^a   Valerius, Gabriele ^a   Schulze, Thomas G ^c   Treutlein, Jens ^a   Rietschel, Marcella ^a   Smolka, Michael N ^d   Bohus, Martin ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b Division of Neurophysiology   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BORDERLINE STATE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMT GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; NEUROIMAGING; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 84855669283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023658     Document Type: Article

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