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Dopaminergic genotype influences spatial bias in healthy adults.
Neuropsychologia - 1 Jul 2010
Greene Ciara M, Robertson Ian H, Gill Michael, Bellgrove Mark A
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Asymmetries of spatial attention are observed in both clinical and non-clinical populations. While lesions of the right hemisphere frequently result in symptoms of left neglect (right bias), the opposite pattern is often observed in healthy subjects, a phenomenon known as pseudoneglect. Pharmacological and animal studies have suggested a critical role for the catecholamines, in particular dopamine and...
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