Association of dopamine receptor polymorphisms with schizophrenia and antipsychotic response in a South Indian population

N. Vijayan, Neetha; Bhaskaran, Sujatha; Koshy, Linda; Natarajan, Chandrasekhar; Srinivas, Lekshmy; M. Nair, Chandrasekharan; M Allencherry, Priya; Banerjee, Moinak

doi:10.1186/1744-9081-3-34

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Association of dopamine receptor polymorphisms with schizophrenia and antipsychotic response in a South Indian population

Published in Behavioral and Brain Functions • Jul 25, 2007

Authors:

Neetha N. Vijayan

Sujatha Bhaskaran

Linda Koshy

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Alterations in the dopamine transmission and receptor density are hypothesized in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia but ethnic disparities are reported to exist in disease association and therapeutic response to psychotropic medication. Antipsychotics have higher binding affinity to D...

Subject

Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming)

Antipsychotic

Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia

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