Cholinergic capacity mediates prefrontal engagement during challenges to attention: Evidence from imaging genetics

NeuroImage

Volumn 108, Issue , 2015, Pages 386-395

  Berry, Anne S ^a   Blakely, Randy D ^c   Sarter, Martin ^a,b   Lustig, Cindy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CHOLINE TRANSPORTER; ISOLEUCINE; PROTEIN SLC5A7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; COTRANSPORTER; SLC5A7 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRODMANN AREA 9; CHOLINE UPTAKE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GENETICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SYMPORTERS;

EID: 84922226075     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.12.036     Document Type: Article

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