Dopamine transporter polymorphisms affect social approach-avoidance tendencies

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 671-676

  Enter, D ^a,b   Colzato, L S ^a   Roelofs, K ^b,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AAT; Approach; Avoidance; DAT1; Dopamine transporter; Social reward

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ALLELE; APPROACH; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EMOTION; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864124165     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2012.00791.x     Document Type: Article

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