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A functional polymorphism of the MAOA gene is associated with neural responses to induced anger control.
Journal of cognitive neuroscience - 1 Jul 2014
Denson Thomas F, Dobson-Stone Carol, Ronay Richard, von Hippel William, Schira Mark M
Abstract excerpt
Aggressiveness is highly heritable. Recent experimental work has linked individual differences in a functional polymorphism of the monoamine oxidase-A gene (MAOA) to anger-driven aggression. Other work has implicated the dorsal ACC (dACC) in cognitive-emotional control and the amygdala in emotional arousal. The present imaging genetics study investigated dACC and amygdala reactivity to induced anger control as a...
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