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Influence of Serotonin Transporter SLC6A4 Genotype on the Effect of Psychosocial Stress on Cognitive Performance: An Exploratory Pilot Study.
Cognitive and behavioral neurology : official journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology - 1 Jun 2018
Beversdorf David Q, Carpenter Allen L, Alexander Jessica K, Jenkins Neil T, Tilley Michael R, White Catherine A, Hillier Ashleigh J, Smith Ryan M, Gu Howard H
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Previous research has shown an effect of various psychosocial stressors on unconstrained cognitive flexibility, such as searching through a large set of potential solutions in the lexical-semantic network during verbal problem-solving. Functional magnetic resonance imaging has shown that the presence of the short (S) allele (lacking a 43-base pair repeat) of the promoter region of the...
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