Prefrontal cortex glutamate and extraversion

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 811-818

  Grimm, Simone ^a,b   Schubert, Florian ^c   Jaedke, Maren ^d   Gallinat, Jürgen ^d   Bajbouj, Malek ^a,d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

1H MRS; Extraversion; Glutamate; Personality; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84867819671     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr056     Document Type: Article

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