An interaction between oxytocin and a genetic variation of the oxytocin receptor modulates amygdala activity toward direct gaze: Evidence from a pharmacological imaging genetics study

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 263, Issue SUPPL.2, 2013, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Gaze; Imaging genetics; Oxytocin; Oxytocin receptor gene

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL COGNITION;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADULT; AMYGDALA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DNA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEAR; FIXATION, OCULAR; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; OXYTOCIN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892733651     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: 14338491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-013-0452-x     Document Type: Article

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