5-HTTLPR and Early Childhood Adversities Moderate Cognitive and Emotional Processing in Adolescence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Owens, Matthew ^a   Goodyer, Ian M ^a,b   Wilkinson, Paul ^a,b   Bhardwaj, Anupam ^a,b   Abbott, Rosemary ^a   Croudace, Tim ^a   Dunn, Valerie ^a   Jones, Peter B ^a,b   Walsh, Nicholas D ^a   Ban, Maria ^a   Sahakian, Barbara J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

5 HTTLPR GENE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MARKER; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELES; ANXIETY; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84870338512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048482     Document Type: Article

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