Preservation of general intelligence following traumatic brain injury: Contributions of the Met66 brain-derived neurotrophic factor

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Barbey, Aron K ^a   Colom, Roberto ^b   Paul, Erick ^a   Forbes, Chad ^c   Krueger, Frank ^d   Goldman, David ^e   Grafman, Jordan ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^f REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GENOMIC DNA; METHIONINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERCEPTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VETERAN; VIET NAM; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WORKING MEMORY; AGED; BRAIN INJURY; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84896278536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088733     Document Type: Article

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