COMT Val158Met genotype is associated with fluctuations in working memory performance: Converging evidence from behavioural and single-trial P3b measures

NeuroImage

Volumn 100, Issue , 2014, Pages 489-497

  Saville, C W N ^a,b   Lancaster, T M ^c   Stefanou, M E ^a,b   Salunkhe, G ^a,b   Lourmpa, I ^b   Nadkarni, A ^b   Boehm, S G ^b   Bender, S ^d   Smyrnis, N ^e   Ettinger, U ^f   Feige, B ^a   Biscaldi, M ^a   Mantripragada, K K ^c   Linden, D E J ^c   Klein, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endophenotype; Intra subject variability; Mental chronometry; P300; Reaction time variability; Rs4680

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; COMT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CATECHOL O METHYLTRANSFERASE GENE; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GENETICS; INDIVIDUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLEIOTROPY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904042910     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.06.006     Document Type: Article

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