Reduced serotonin transporter availability decreases prefrontal control of the amygdala

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 8974-8979

  Volman, Inge ^a,b   Verhagen, Lennart ^b   den Ouden, Hanneke E M ^b,c   Fernández, Guillén ^b,d   Rijpkema, Mark ^b,d   Franke, Barbara ^b,d   Toni, Ivan ^b   Roelofs, Karin ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ALLELE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84877931359     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5518-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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