Serotonin depletion induces 'waiting impulsivity' on the human four-choice serial reaction time task: Cross-species translational significance

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1519-1526

  Worbe, Yulia ^a   Savulich, George ^b   Voon, Valerie ^b   Fernandez Egea, Emilio ^a,b   Robbins, Trevor W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4 CSRTT; acute tryptophan depletion; attention; impulsive action; premature responses; serotonin

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BARRATT IMPULSIVENESS SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOUR CHOICE SERIAL REACTION TIME TASK; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; RODENT; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; DEFICIENCY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECTS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SEROTONIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84900809751     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.351     Document Type: Article

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