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Decision-making impairment is related to serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism in a sample of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Behavioural brain research - 16 Dec 2008
da Rocha Felipe Filardi, Malloy-Diniz Leandro, Lage Naira Vassalo, Romano-Silva Marco Aurélio, de Marco Luiz Armando, Correa Humberto
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OBJECTIVE: Decision-making impairment is an important feature of some psychiatric disorders, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and substance-use disorders, and is associated with dysfunction of the fronto-subcortical circuit, mainly the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). Several data reports support significant correlations between decision-making impairment and the serotonin system. Thus, this...
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