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Genetic markers of striatal dopamine predict individual differences in dysfunctional, but not functional impulsivity.
Neuroscience - 27 Oct 2010
Colzato L S, van den Wildenberg W P M, Van der Does A J W, Hommel B
Abstract excerpt
Various psychiatric disorders are characterized by elevated levels of impulsivity. Although extensive evidence supports a specific role of striatal, but not frontal dopamine (DA) in human impulsivity, recent studies on genetic variability have raised some doubts on such a role. Importantly, impulsivity consists of two dissociable components that previous studies have failed to separate: functional and...
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