Nicotinic receptor gene CHRNA4 interacts with processing load in attention.

BACKGROUND: Pharmacological studies suggest that cholinergic neurotransmission mediates increases in attentional effort in response to high processing load during attention demanding tasks [1]. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: In the present study we tested whether individual variation in CHRNA4, a g...

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Main Authors: Thomas Espeseth, Markus Handal Sneve, Helge Rootwelt, Bruno Laeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3008676?pdf=render