Studying the effects of dietary body weight-adjusted acute tryptophan depletion on punishment-related behavioral inhibition

Food and Nutrition Research

Volumn 59, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Gaber, Tilman J ^a,b,c   Dingerkus, Vita L S ^a   Crockett, Molly J ^d   Bubenzer Busch, Sarah ^a,b,c   Helmbold, Katrin ^a,b,c   Sánchez, Cristina L ^a,b,c   Dahmen, Brigitte ^a,b,c   Herpertz Dahlmann, Beate ^a,b,c   Zepf, Florian D ^a,b,c,e,f,g  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JARA TRANSLATIONAL BRAIN MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c JARA Translational Brain Medicine   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^g DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute tryptophan depletion; Decision making; Executive functions; Gender; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ACCURACY; ACUTE TRYPTOPHAN DEPLETION; ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DECISION MAKING; DEPLETION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PUNISHMENT; RESPONSE TIME; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRYPTOPHAN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84940969607     PISSN: 16546628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/fnr.v59.28443     Document Type: Article

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