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Emotion processing, major depression, and functional genetic variation of neuropeptide Y.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Feb 2011
Mickey Brian J, Zhou Zhifeng, Heitzeg Mary M, Heinz Elizabeth, Hodgkinson Colin A, Hsu David T, Langenecker Scott A, Love Tiffany M, Peciña Marta, Shafir Tal, Stohler Christian S, Goldman David, Zubieta Jon-Kar
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CONTEXT: Despite recent progress in describing the common neural circuitry of emotion and stress processing, the bases of individual variation are less well understood. Genetic variants that underlie psychiatric disease have proven particularly difficult to elucidate. Functional genetic variation of neuropeptide Y (NPY) was recently identified as a source of individual differences in emotion. Low NPY levels have...
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