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SUBMITTER: Kanen JW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7847998 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kanen Jonathan W JW Arntz Fréderique E FE Yellowlees Robyn R Cardinal Rudolf N RN Price Annabel A Christmas David M DM Apergis-Schoute Annemieke M AM Sahakian Barbara J BJ Robbins Trevor W TW
Translational psychiatry 20210201 1
Serotonin is involved in a wide range of mental capacities essential for navigating the social world, including emotion and impulse control. Much recent work on serotonin and social functioning has focused on decision-making. Here we investigated the influence of serotonin on human emotional reactions to social conflict. We used a novel computerised task that required mentally simulating social situations involving unjust harm and found that depleting the serotonin precursor tryptophan-in a doub ...[more]