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Cognitive and emotional processing in high novelty seeking associated with the L-DRD4 genotype.
Neuropsychologia - 1 Jun 2009
Roussos Panos, Giakoumaki Stella G, Bitsios Panos
Abstract excerpt
The personality trait of novelty seeking (NS) has been associated with the long variant of the dopamine D4 receptor (L-DRD4) VNTR polymorphism. This is the first study to examine the influence of L-DRD4 polymorphism on some of the cognitive (i.e. decision making) and emotional underpinnings of the NS phenotype. One hundred and eighteen healthy males grouped in a L-DRD4 (n=24) and a S-DRD4 (n=94) group, completed...
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