Biol. Psychiatry (2005) vol.57 (12): pp. 1517-1525

Variation of human amygdala response during threatening stimuli as a function of 5HTTLPR genotype and personality style

Alessandro Bertolino, MD, PhD ^1,3,4, Giampiero Arciero, MD ^2, Valeria Rubino MD ¹, Valeria Latorre MD ¹, Mariapia De Candia, PhD ¹, Viridiana Mazzola, PhD ², Giuseppe Blasi, MD ^1,3, Grazia Caforio, MD ¹, Ahmad Hariri, PhD ⁵, Bhaskar Kolachana, PhD ³, Marcello Nardini, MD ¹, Daniel R Weinberger, MD ³, Tommaso Scarabino, MD ⁴

1Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Section on Mental Disorders,Department of Psychiatric and Neurological Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy;
2  Istituto di Psicoterapia Postrazionalista, Rome, Italy;
3 Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (MD), USA;
4 Department of Neuroradiology, IRCCSS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza,San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy;
5 Developmental Imaging Genomics Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, (USA)