Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 182, Issue 1 , Pages 53-57, 30 April 2010

Critical examination of a correlation between brain gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) concentrations and a personality trait of extroversion in healthy volunteers as measured by a 3 Tesla proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study

  • Naoki Goto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine,1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 8078555, Japan
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  • Reiji Yoshimura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine,1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 8078555, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 8078555, Japan. Tel.: +81 936917253; fax: +81 936924894.
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  • Junji Moriya

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine,1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 8078555, Japan
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  • Shingo Kakeda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine,1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 8078555, Japan
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  • Kenji Hayashi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine,1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 8078555, Japan
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  • Nobuhisa Ueda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine,1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 8078555, Japan
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  • Atsuko Ikenouchi-Sugita

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine,1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 8078555, Japan
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  • Wakako Umene-Nakano

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine,1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 8078555, Japan
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  • Norihiro Oonari

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine,1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 8078555, Japan
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  • Yukunori Korogi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine,1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 8078555, Japan
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  • Jun Nakamura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine,1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 8078555, Japan

Received 5 April 2009; received in revised form 30 October 2009; accepted 2 November 2009.

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PII: S0925-4927(09)00249-2

doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.11.002

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 182, Issue 1 , Pages 53-57, 30 April 2010

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