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Polygenic risk for depression and the neural correlates of working memory in healthy subjects.
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry - 3 Oct 2017
Yüksel Dilara, Dietsche Bruno, Forstner Andreas J, Witt Stephanie H, Maier Robert, Rietschel Marcella, Konrad Carsten, Nöthen Markus M, Dannlowski Udo, Baune Bernhard T, Kircher Tilo, Krug Axel
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INTRODUCTION: Major depressive disorder (MDD) patients show impairments of cognitive functioning such as working memory (WM), and furthermore alterations during WM-fMRI tasks especially in frontal and parietal brain regions. The calculation of a polygenic risk score (PRS) can be used to describe the genetic influence on MDD, hence imaging genetic studies aspire to combine both genetics and neuroimaging data to...
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