Imaging oxytocin × dopamine interactions: An epistasis effect of CD38 and COMT gene variants influences the impact of oxytocin on amygdala activation to social stimuli

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 7 APR, 2013, Pages

  Sauer, Carina ^a   Montag, Christian ^b   Reuter, Martin ^b   Kirsch, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; CD38; COMT; Dopamine; FMRI; Oxytocin

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; CD38 ANTIGEN; DOPAMINE; OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORPUS STRIATUM; EPISTASIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84878834388     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00045     Document Type: Article

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