• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Dopaminergic neuromodulation has no detectable effect on visual-cue induced haemodynamic response function in the visual cortex: A double-blind, placebo-controlled functional magnetic resonance imaging study
  • Contributor: Manoliu, Andrei; Sladky, Ronald; Scherpiet, Sigrid; Jäncke, Lutz; Kirschner, Matthias; Haugg, Amelie; Bolsinger, Julia; Kraehenmann, Rainer; Stämpfli, Philipp; Scharnowski, Frank; Herwig, Uwe; Seifritz, Erich; Brühl, Annette B
  • Published: SAGE Publications, 2021
  • Published in: Journal of Psychopharmacology, 35 (2021) 1, Seite 100-102
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1177/0269881120972341
  • ISSN: 0269-8811; 1461-7285
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  • Description: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of acute dopamine agonistic and antagonistic manipulation on the visual-cue induced blood oxygen level-dependent signal response in healthy volunteers. Seventeen healthy volunteers in a double-blind placebo-controlled cross-over design received either a dopamine antagonist, agonist or placebo and underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging. Using classical inference and Bayesian statistics, we found no effect of dopaminergic modulation on properties of visual-cue induced blood oxygen level-dependent signals in the visual cortex, particularly on distinct properties of the haemodynamic response function (amplitude, time-to-peak and width). Dopamine-related effects modulating the neurovascular coupling in the visual cortex might be negligible when measured via functional magnetic resonance imaging.