The BDNF Val66Met polymorphism modulates the generalization of cued fear responses to a novel context

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1187-1195

  Mühlberger, Andreas ^a,b   Andreatta, Marta ^a   Ewald, Heike ^a   Glotzbach Schoon, Evelyn ^a   Tröger, Christian ^a   Baumann, Christian ^a   Reif, Andreas ^a   Deckert, Jürgen ^a   Pauli, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

BDNF; context conditioning; cue conditioning; startle reflex; virtual reality

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; VALINE; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR, HUMAN;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROMODULATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; YELLOW LIGHT; ASSOCIATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; GENETICS; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REFLEX, STARTLE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896391886     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.320     Document Type: Article

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