Individual response speed is modulated by variants of the gene encoding the alpha 4 sub-unit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (CHRNA4)

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 284, Issue , 2015, Pages 11-18

  Schneider, Katja Kerstin ^a   Schote, Andrea B ^a   Meyer, Jobst ^a   Markett, Sebastian ^b   Reuter, Martin ^b   Frings, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; CHRNA4 rs1044396; Information processing; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Response speed; Selective visual attention

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4; NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR ALPHA4 SUBUNIT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REPETITION PRIMING; STROOP TEST; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922998405     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.01.041     Document Type: Article

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