Bright ambient light conditions reduce the effect of tryptophan depletion in healthy females

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-114

  Defrancesco, Michaela ^a   Niederstätter, Harald ^a   Parson, Walther ^a   Kemmler, Georg ^a   Hinterhuber, Hartmann ^a   Marksteiner, Josef ^b   Deisenhammer, Eberhard A ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b LKH Hall ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

5 HTTLPR; Light treatment; Serotonergic system

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; ALLELE; AMBIENT LIGHT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLETION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEROTONIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; TRYPTOPHAN DEPLETION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

5-HTTLPR; LIGHT TREATMENT; SEROTONERGIC SYSTEM;

ADULT; AFFECT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRYPTOPHAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885864188     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.02.008     Document Type: Article

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