Lack of Meta-Analytic Evidence for an Impact of COMT Val158Met Genotype on Brain Activation during Working Memory Tasks

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2015, Pages e43-e46

  Nickl Jockschat, Thomas ^a,b   Janouschek, Hildegard ^c   Eickhoff, Simon B ^d,e   Eickhoff, Claudia R ^a,d  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Translational Brain Medicine   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE; METHIONINE; VALINE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BRAIN; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDLINE; MENTAL PATIENT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEUROIMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

BRAIN; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; METHIONINE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VALINE;

EID: 84960815108     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.02.030     Document Type: Letter

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