Overestimation of the effects of the BDNF val66met polymorphism on episodic memory-related hippocampal function: A critique of a recent meta-analysis

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 739-741

  Dodds, Chris M ^a   Henson, Richard N ^b   Miller, Sam R ^a   Nathan, Pradeep J ^a,c,d  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

BDNF; Cognitive; FMRI; Memory

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

BDNF GENE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; EFFECT SIZE; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GRAY MATTER; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84876300697     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.01.019     Document Type: Note

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