No Association of the BDNF Val66met Polymorphism with Implicit Associative Vocabulary and Motor Learning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Freundlieb, Nils ^a   Philipp, Stephan ^a   Schneider, Susanne A ^b   Brüggemann, Norbert ^b   Klein, Christine ^b   Gerloff, Christian ^a   Hummel, Friedhelm C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; METHIONINE; VALINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE VOCABULARY LEARNING; ASSOCIATIVE VOCABULARY LEARNING TASK; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; SERIAL REACTION TIME TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869064745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048327     Document Type: Article

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