Article
Serotonin transporter genetic variation and biased attention for emotional word stimuli among psychiatric inpatients.
Journal of abnormal psychology - 1 Feb 2007
Beevers Christopher G, Gibb Brandon E, McGeary John E, Miller Ivan W
Abstract excerpt
The short allele in a variable repeat sequence of the promoter region of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) has been associated with stronger activation in brain regions critical for processing emotional stimuli. The authors examined whether variants of the 5-HTTLPR promoter polymorphism were also associated with individual differences in attentional biases for emotional stimuli. Words related to anxious...
Topics
- Adult
- Affect
- Alleles
- Attention
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Male
- Mental Disorders
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins
