Article
Prefrontal morphology, 5-HTTLPR polymorphism and biased attention for emotional stimuli.
Genes, brain, and behavior - 1 Mar 2010
Beevers C G, Pacheco J, Clasen P, McGeary J E, Schnyer D
Abstract excerpt
Biased attention for emotional stimuli has been associated with vulnerability to psychopathology. This study examines the neural substrates of biased attention. Twenty-three adult women completed high-resolution structural imaging followed by a standard behavioral measure of biased attention (i.e. spatial cueing task). Participants were also genotyped for the serotonin transporter-linked promoter region...
Topics
- Adult
- Amygdala
- Attention
- Brain Mapping
- Carrier State
- DNA
- DNA Primers
- Demography
- Depressive Disorder
- Emotions
- Female
- Genetic Variation
