Ebbinghaus revisited: Influences of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on backward serial recall are modulated by human aging

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2164-2173

  Li, Shu Chen ^a,b   Chicherio, Christian ^a,c   Nyberg, Lars ^d   Von Oertzen, Timo ^a   Nagel, Irene E ^a,b   Papenberg, Goran ^a   Sander, Thomas ^e   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a,b,f,g   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a,b   Bäckman, Lars ^a,b,h  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b Berlin NeuroImaging Center   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^h KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; METHIONINE; VALINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SERIAL LEARNING; VALINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956899152     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21374     Document Type: Article

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