Pre- and postsynaptic serotonergic differences in males with extreme levels of impulsive aggression without callous unemotional traits: A positron emission tomography study using 11C-DASB and 11C-MDL100907

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1004-1011

  Rylands, Angela J ^a   Hinz, Rainer ^a   Jones, Matthew ^a   Holmes, Sophie E ^a   Feldmann, Maria ^a,b   Brown, Gavin ^a   McMahon, Adam W ^a   Talbot, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Callous unemotional; childhood adversity; impulsive aggression; PET imaging; serotonin (5 HT); serotonin receptors

Indexed keywords

11C DASB; 11C MDL 100907; SEROTONIN 2A RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVE AGGRESSION; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANILINE COMPOUNDS; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; EMOTIONS; FLUOROBENZENES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PIPERIDINES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2A; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SULFIDES; SYNAPSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869080352     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.06.024     Document Type: Article

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