The role of COMT gene variants in depression: Bridging neuropsychological, behavioral and clinical phenotypes

N Antypa, A Drago, A Serretti - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Depression is a common and disabling psychiatric disorder with a complex etiology, which
includes predisposing risk genes and environmental stressors. Variation in the Catechol-O …

Toward a neurogenetic theory of neuroticism

T Canli - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in neuroscience and molecular biology have begun to identify neural and
genetic correlates of complex traits. Future theories of personality need to integrate these …

A systems framework for understanding social settings

V Tseng, E Seidman - American journal of community psychology, 2007 - Springer
In this paper, we argue that attempts to change social settings have been hindered by lack of
theoretical advances in understanding key aspects of social settings and how they work in a …

How Large Should the QM Region Be in QM/MM Calculations? The Case of Catechol O-Methyltransferase

HJ Kulik, J Zhang, JP Klinman… - The Journal of Physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Hybrid quantum mechanical–molecular mechanical (QM/MM) simulations are widely used in
studies of enzymatic catalysis. Until recently, it has been cost prohibitive to determine the …

[图书][B] Building in research and evaluation: Human inquiry for living systems

Y Wadsworth - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Yoland Wadsworth's ground-breaking proposition is that the act of inquiry is the way by
which every living organism and all collective human life goes about continuously learning …

[图书][B] Retraumatization: Assessment, treatment, and prevention

MP Duckworth, VM Follette - 2012 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Exposure to potentially traumatic events puts individuals at risk for developing a variety of
psychological disorders; the complexities involved in treating them are numerous and have …

Improvement of prepulse inhibition and executive function by the COMT inhibitor tolcapone depends on COMT Val158Met polymorphism

SG Giakoumaki, P Roussos, P Bitsios - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2008 - nature.com
Recent evidence suggests that prepulse inhibition (PPI) levels relate to executive function
possibly by a prefrontal cortex (PFC) dopamine (DA) link. We explored the effects of …

Planning, decision-making and the COMT rs4818 polymorphism in healthy males

P Roussos, SG Giakoumaki, S Pavlakis, P Bitsios - Neuropsychologia, 2008 - Elsevier
Recent evidence suggests that a synonymous polymorphism within the COMT gene (rs4818
C/G) accounts for a greater variation of COMT activity compared to the functional Val158Met …

Comparison of school readiness between rural and urban Chinese preschool children

Y Gan, L Meng, J Xie - Social Behavior and Personality: an …, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Children's future academic success may depend on their readiness to learn and participate
in preschool education. We examined school readiness differences in a sample of rural and …

[PDF][PDF] Teachers' professional development in Oman: Challenges, efforts and solutions

MJH Al Jabri, H Silvennoinen… - International Journal of …, 2018 - ijlter.myres.net
Teachers‟ in-service training as such is not a new thing in Oman, but due to the national
effort put in re-organising and systematising in-service training programmes in the past few …