Memory monitoring performance and PFC activity are associated with 5-HTTLPR genotype in older adults

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2257-2270

  Pacheco, Jennifer ^a,b   Beevers, Christopher G ^a   McGeary, John E ^c   Schnyer, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

5 HTTLPR; Aging; FMRI; Memory monitoring; Metamemory; Prefrontal cortex; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY MONITORING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER LINKED POLYMORPHIC REGION; SLC6A4 GENE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALLELES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DNA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863859058     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.05.030     Document Type: Article

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