de Quervain, D J F; Kolassa, I T; Ertl, V; Onyut, P L; Neuner, F; Elbert, T; Papassotiropoulos, A (2007). A deletion variant of the alpha2b-adrenoceptor is related to emotional memory in Europeans and Africans. Nature Neuroscience, 10(9):1137-1139.
Emotionally arousing events are recalled better than neutral events. This phenomenon, which helps us to remember important and potentially vital information, depends on the activation of noradrenergic transmission in the brain. Here we show that a deletion variant of ADRA2B, the gene encoding the alpha2b-adrenergic receptor, is related to enhanced emotional memory in healthy Swiss subjects and in survivors of the Rwandan civil war who experienced highly aversive emotional situations.
Emotionally arousing events are recalled better than neutral events. This phenomenon, which helps us to remember important and potentially vital information, depends on the activation of noradrenergic transmission in the brain. Here we show that a deletion variant of ADRA2B, the gene encoding the alpha2b-adrenergic receptor, is related to enhanced emotional memory in healthy Swiss subjects and in survivors of the Rwandan civil war who experienced highly aversive emotional situations.
| Item Type: | Journal Article, refereed, original work |
|---|---|
| Communities & Collections: | 04 Faculty of Medicine > University Hospital Zurich > Klinik für Konsiliarpsychiatrie und Psychosomatik
04 Faculty of Medicine > Center for Integrative Human Physiology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM) |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 570 Life sciences; biology
610 Medicine & health |
| Scopus Subject Areas: | Life Sciences > General Neuroscience |
| Language: | English |
| Date: | September 2007 |
| Deposited On: | 18 Mar 2009 09:02 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2022 21:45 |
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
| ISSN: | 1097-6256 |
| OA Status: | Closed |
| Publisher DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1945 |
| PubMed ID: | 17660814 |
de Quervain, D J F