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ADRA2B genotype modulates effects of acute psychosocial stress on emotional memory retrieval in healthy young men.
Neurobiology of learning and memory - 1 Jul 2013
Li Shijia, Weerda Riklef, Guenzel Friederike, Wolf Oliver T, Thiel Christiane M
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies have shown that acute psychosocial stress impairs retrieval of declarative memory with emotional material being especially sensitive to this effect. A functional deletion variant of the ADRA2B gene encoding the α2B-adrenergic receptor has been shown to increase emotional memory and neural activity in the amygdala. We investigated the effects of acute psychosocial stress and the ADRA2B allele on...
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