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Greene, Ciara M.; Bellgrove, Mark A.; Gill, Michael; Robertson, Ian H. – Neuropsychologia, 2009
Sustained attention is modulated by the neurotransmitter noradrenaline. The balance of dopamine and noradrenaline in the cortex is controlled by the DBH gene. The principal variant in this gene is a C/T change at position-1021, and the T allele at this locus is hypothesised to result in a slower rate of dopamine to noradrenaline conversion than…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Correlation, Genetics, Attention Control