Article
Variations in the promoter region of the serotonin transporter gene and biased attention for emotional information: a meta-analysis.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Feb 2012
Pergamin-Hight Lee, Bakermans-Kranenburg Marian J, van Ijzendoorn Marinus H, Bar-Haim Yair
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Selective attention to negative information has been strongly implicated in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety and offered as a potential intermediate phenotype for anxiety disorders. Attention biases have been studied in relation to a polymorphism in the promoter region of the s...
Topics
- Anxiety Disorders
- Attention
- Behavior Therapy
- Catastrophization
- Gene-Environment Interaction
- Genetic Association Studies
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Prognosis
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Serotonin
- Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins
