Disadvantage of Social Sensitivity: Interaction of Oxytocin Receptor Genotype and Child Maltreatment on Brain Structure

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 398-405

  Dannlowski, Udo ^a,b   Kugel, Harald ^a   Grotegerd, Dominik ^a   Redlich, Ronny ^a   Opel, Nils ^a   Dohm, Katharina ^a   Zaremba, Dario ^a   Grögler, Anne ^a   Schwieren, Juliane ^a   Suslow, Thomas ^c   Ohrmann, Patricia ^a   Bauer, Jochen ^a   Krug, Axel ^b   Kircher, Tilo ^b   Jansen, Andreas ^b   Domschke, Katharina ^d   Hohoff, Christa ^a   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^a   Heinrichs, Markus ^e   Arolt, Volker ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a   Baune, Bernhard T ^f   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amygdala; fMRI; Oxytocin; Reward dependence; VBM; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALLELE; AMYGDALA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILDHOOD TRAUMA QUESTIONNAIRE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GENOTYPE; GRAY MATTER; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; VENTRAL STRIATUM; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMOTION; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INJURY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; REWARD; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84990177981     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.12.010     Document Type: Article

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