Structural neuroimaging correlates of allelic variation of the BDNF val66met polymorphism

NeuroImage

Volumn 90, Issue , 2014, Pages 280-289

  Forde, Natalie J ^a   Ronan, Lisa ^b   Suckling, John ^b,d,h   Scanlon, Cathy ^a   Neary, Simon ^a   Holleran, Laurena ^a   Leemans, Alexander ^c   Tait, Roger ^d   Rua, Catarina ^b   Fletcher, Paul C ^b,d,h   Jeurissen, Ben ^e   Dodds, Chris M ^f   Miller, Sam R ^f   Bullmore, Edward T ^b,d,f,h   McDonald, Colm ^a   Nathan, Pradeep J ^b,f,g   Cannon, Dara M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^f GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^g MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BDNF; Diffusion; Intrinsic curvature; MRI; Structural; Val66met

Indexed keywords

BDNF; DIFFUSION; INTRINSIC CURVATURE; MRI; STRUCTURAL; VAL66MET;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893558834     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.050     Document Type: Article

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