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Emotional fronto-cingulate cortex activation and brain derived neurotrophic factor polymorphism in premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
Human brain mapping - 1 Sept 2014
Comasco Erika, Hahn Andreas, Ganger Sebastian, Gingnell Malin, Bannbers Elin, Oreland Lars, Wikström Johan, Epperson C Neill, Lanzenberger Rupert, Sundström-Poromaa Inger
Abstract excerpt
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is the prototypical sex-specific disorder in which symptom onset and offset require a particular hormonal milieu and for which there is moderate heritability. The present study investigated brain emotion processing in PMDD and healthy controls, as well as functional polymorphisms in two candidate genes for PMDD, the serotonin transporter (5-HTT) and brain derived...
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