Interaction of COMT val 158met and externalizing behavior: Relation to prefrontal brain activity and behavioral performance

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2158-2168

  Shehzad, Zarrar ^a   DeYoung, Colin G ^b   Kang, Yoona ^a   Grigorenko, Elena L ^a,c   Gray, Jeremy R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

COMT; Externalizing; FMRI; Genetics; Inhibitory control; MSIT

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHIONINE; VALINE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CINGULATE MOTOR AREA; COGNITION; COMT GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEUS; EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIOR; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; LATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBICULUM; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR MEDIAL FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; THALAMUS; AGGRESSION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; GENETICS; IMPULSIVENESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGGRESSION; BRAIN MAPPING; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84858710622     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.097     Document Type: Article

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