Behavioral and Neural Manifestations of Reward Memory in Carriers of Low-Expressing versus High-Expressing Genetic Variants of the Dopamine D2 Receptor

Behavioral and Neural Manifestations of Reward Memory in Carriers of Low-Expressing versus High-Expressing Genetic Variants of the Dopamine D2 Receptor

Dopamine is critically important in the neural manifestation of motivated behavior, and alterations in the human dopaminergic system have been implicated in the etiology of motivation-related psychiatric disorders, most prominently addiction. Patients with chronic addiction exhibit reduced dopamine...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Anni Richter, Adriana Barman, Torsten Wüstenberg, Joram Soch, Denny Schanze, Anna Deibele, Gusalija Behnisch, Anne Assmann, Marieke Klein, Martin Zenker, Constanze Seidenbecher, Björn H. Schott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
dopamine D2 receptor
TaqIA
C957T
episodic memory
reward
fMRI
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00654/full

Internet

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00654/full

Similar Items