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Emotion-induced retrograde amnesia is determined by a 5-HTT genetic polymorphism.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 9 Jul 2008
Strange Bryan A, Kroes Marijn C W, Roiser Jonathan P, Tan Geoffrey C Y, Dolan Raymond J
Abstract excerpt
A polymorphism in the human serotonin transporter (5-HTT) gene is implicated in susceptibility to anxiety and depression and in enhanced emotion-induced activation in the amygdala. A role for 5-HTT polymorphism in the emotional modulation of human episodic memory has yet to be demonstrated. Here, we demonstrate that whereas emotional memory for aversive events per se is not influenced by 5-HTT polymorphism, an...
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