Adolescent behavior and dopamine availability are uniquely sensitive to dietary omega-3 fatty acid deficiency

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 38-46

  Bondi, Corina O ^a   Taha, Ameer Y ^b   Tock, Jody L ^a   Totah, Nelson K B ^a   Cheon, Yewon ^b   Torres, Gonzalo E ^a   Rapoport, Stanley I ^b   Moghaddam, Bita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; anxiety; cognition; fatty acids; nutrition; schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VESICULAR MONOAMINE TRANSPORTER 2;

ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHILD NUTRITION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DORSAL STRIATUM; FAT INTAKE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ADDICTION; ANXIETY; COGNITION; FATTY ACIDS; NUTRITION; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84889589463     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.06.007     Document Type: Article

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