A deletion variant of the α2b-adrenoceptor is related to emotional memory in Europeans and Africans

Emotionally arousing events are recalled better than neutral events. This phenomenon, which helps us to remember important and potentially vital information, depends on the activation of noradrenergic transmission in the brain. Here we show that a deletion variant of ADRA2B, the gene encoding the α2b-adrenergic receptor, is related to enhanced emotional memory in healthy Swiss subjects and in survivors of the Rwandan civil war who experienced highly aversive emotional situations.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Nature Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2007-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/nn1945PMID 17660814
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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