Effect of catechol-O-methyltransferase-val158met-polymorphism on the automatization of motor skills - A post hoc view on an experimental data

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 266, Issue , 2014, Pages 169-173

  Krause, Daniel ^a   Beck, Frieder ^b   Agethen, Manfred ^a   Blischke, Klaus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatization; Catechol O methyltransferase genotype; Dual task; Motor learning

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE; METHIONINE; VALINE; COMT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE METABOLISM; COMT GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ELBOW EXTENSION FLEXION MOVEMENT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; UPREGULATION; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTOMATISM; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTOMATISM; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; METHIONINE; MOTOR SKILLS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VALINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897844148     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.02.037     Document Type: Article

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