Attention biases and habituation of attention biases are associated with 5-HTTLPR and COMTval158met

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 354-363

  Lonsdorf, Tina B ^a,b,c,d   Juth, Pernilla ^a   Rohde, Christin ^a   Schalling, Martin ^a,d   Öhman, Arne ^a,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c Stockholm Brain Institutet   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Attention; Dopamine; Emotion; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; COMT PROTEIN, HUMAN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SLC6A4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REACTION TIME; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897548252     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-013-0200-8     Document Type: Article

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