Association study between COMT 158Met and creativity scores in bipolar disorder and healthy controls

Background Bipolar disorder (BD) patients have been reported to be associated higher creativity abilities, and recent data tend to support the hypothesis that dopaminergic system that could be associated with creativity. Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) is one of the major enzymes involved in th...

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Main Authors: Márcio Gerhardt Soeiro-de-Souza, Robert Post, Rodrigo Machado-Vieira, Carolina Martins do Prado, Ricardo Alberto Moreno, Hagop Akiskal, Kareen K. Akiskal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2014-03-01
Series:Archives of Clinical Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-60832014000200029&lng=en&tlng=en