Amygdala responses to salient social cues vary with oxytocin receptor genotype in youth

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 79, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-9

  Marusak, Hilary A ^a,b   Furman, Daniella J ^c   Kuruvadi, Nisha ^d   Shattuck, David W ^e   Joshi, Shantanu H ^e   Joshi, Anand A ^f   Etkin, Amit ^g,h   Thomason, Moriah E ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Early stress; Genetics; Limbic; Stroop

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; OXTR PROTEIN, HUMAN; OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENOTYPE; GRAY MATTER; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OXTR GENE; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CUE; TASK PERFORMANCE; AMYGDALA; BLOOD; EMOTION; GENETICS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MENTAL STRESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALA; CHILD; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENOTYPE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POVERTY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84945937336     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.10.015     Document Type: Article

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