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Prefrontal electrophysiologic "noise" and catechol-O-methyltransferase genotype in schizophrenia.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Sept 2006
Winterer Georg, Egan Michael F, Kolachana Bhaskar S, Goldberg Terry E, Coppola Richard, Weinberger Daniel R
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BACKGROUND: Increased variability of stimulus-induced prefrontal electromagnetic activity ("noise") has been associated with genetic risk for schizophrenia. On the basis of animal experiments and computational models, we have predicted that this prefrontal "noise" phenotype would be related to variation in prefrontal dopamine (DA) signaling, which itself might be abnormal in schizophrenia. In the present study,...
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