Eating to stop: Tyrosine supplementation enhances inhibitory control but not response execution

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 398-402

  Colzato, Lorenza S ^a   Jongkees, Bryant J ^a   Sellaro, Roberta ^a   van den Wildenberg, Wery P M ^b   Hommel, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Inhibitory control; Stop signal task; Tyrosine

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECTS; HEART RATE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TYROSINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907707418     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.12.027     Document Type: Article

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