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Sensory gating deficit is associated with catechol-O-methyltransferase polymorphisms in bipolar disorder.
The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry - 1 Aug 2011
Ancín Inés, Cabranes José Antonio, Vázquez-Álvarez Blanca, Santos Jose Luis, Sánchez-Morla Eva, García-Jiménez María Ángeles, Fernández Cristina, Barabash Ana
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES. Recent studies have evidenced that bipolar patients show a sensory gating deficit (P50). Among the neural systems that could be influencing this electrophysiological phenotype, dopamine seems to play an important role. We hypothesize that catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), the main metabolizer of dopamine in prefrontal cortex, is related to this deficit. METHODS. We selected three polymorphisms in...
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