Genetic variants affecting the neural processing of human facial expressions: Evidence using a genome-wide functional imaging approach

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Brown, A A ^a   Jensen, J ^a,b,c   Nikolova, Y S ^d   Djurovic, S ^a,b   Agartz, I ^a,e   Server, A ^b   Ferrell, R E ^f   Manuck, S B ^f   Mattingsdal, M ^a,g   Melle, I ^a,b   Hariri, A R ^d   Frigessi, A ^a   Andreassen, O A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DIAKONHJEMMET HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^g Sørlandet Hospital Hf   (Norway)

Author keywords

face processing; fMRI; genome wide association

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE POTENTIAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; RP4 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SLC24A3 GENE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TMEM212 GENE; VALIDATION STUDY; BRAIN MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84866129034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2012.67     Document Type: Article

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