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Putative cortical dopamine levels affect cortical recruitment during planning.
Neuropsychologia - 1 Sept 2013
Fallon S J, Hampshire A, Williams-Gray C H, Barker R A, Owen A M
Abstract excerpt
Planning, the decomposition of an ultimate goal into a number of sub-goals is critically dependent upon fronto-striatal dopamine (DA) levels. Here, we examined the extent to which the val158met polymorphism in the catechol O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene, which is thought to primarily alter corti...
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