Why some people discount more than others: Baseline activation in the dorsal PFC mediates the link between COMT genotype and impatient choice

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Gianotti, Lorena R R ^a   Figner, Bernd ^b,c   Ebstein, Richard P ^d   Knoch, Daria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

COMT genotype; Delay discounting; Endophenotype; Individual differences; Intertemporal choice; Resting EEG

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DELAY DISCOUNTING; DORSAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENDOPHENOTYPE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84862202023     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00054     Document Type: Article

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