Title : MAOA and the neurogenetic architecture of human aggression.

Pub. Date : 2008 Mar

PMID : 18258310






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1 We propose that the MAOA-L, by causing an ontogenic excess of 5-hydroxytryptamine, labilizes critical neural circuitry for social evaluation and emotion regulation (the "socioaffective scaffold"), thereby amplifying the effects of adverse early-life experience and creating deleterious sociocognitive biases. Serotonin monoamine oxidase A Homo sapiens