Amygdala-Dependent Fear Conditioning in Humans is Modulated by the BDNFval66met Polymorphism

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-15

  Lonsdorf, Tina B ^a   Weike, Almut I ^b   Golkar, Armita ^a   Schalling, Martin ^a   Hamm, Alfons O ^b   Öhman, Arne ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

anxiety; brain derived neurotrophic factor; fear potentiated startle; learning; synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; METHIONINE; VALINE;

ALLELE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; METHIONINE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; STARTLE REACTION; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VALINE;

EID: 77249178282     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018261     Document Type: Article

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