ROLE OF NOVELTY SEEKING PERSONALITY TRAITS AS MEDIATOR OF THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN COMT AND ONSET AGE OF DRUG USE IN CHINESE HEROIN DEPENDENT PATIENTS.

Role of novelty seeking personality traits as mediator of the association between COMT and onset age of drug use in Chinese heroin dependent patients.

Personality traits such as novelty seeking (NS) are associated with substance dependence Pencil Case but the mechanism underlying this association remains uncertain.Previous studies have focused on the role of the dopamine pathway.Examine the relationships between allelic variants of the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene, NS personality trai

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The Cinema-Cognition Dialogue: A Match Made in Brain

That human evolution amalgamates biological and cultural change is taken as a given, and that the interaction of brain, body and culture is more reciprocal then initially thought becomes apparent as the science of evolution evolves (Jablonka & Lamb 2005).The contribution of science and technology to this process is probably the first to come to

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