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A genetic variation of the noradrenergic system is related to differential amygdala activation during encoding of emotional memories.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 Nov 2009
Rasch B, Spalek K, Buholzer S, Luechinger R, Boesiger P, Papassotiropoulos A, de Quervain D J-F
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Emotionally arousing events are typically well remembered, but there is a large interindividual variability for this phenomenon. We have recently shown that a functional deletion variant of ADRA2B, the gene encoding the alpha2b-adrenergic receptor, is related to enhanced emotional memory in healt...
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