Val66Met BDNF Polymorphism Implies a Different Way to Recover from Stroke Rather Than a Worse Overall Recoverability

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 3-8

  Di Pino, Giovanni ^a   Pellegrino, Giovanni ^a,b   Capone, Fioravante ^a   Assenza, Giovanni ^a   Florio, L U C I A ^a   Falato, E M M A ^a   Lotti, Fiorenza ^a   Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

brain plasticity; brain derived neurotrophic factor; cortex; noninvasive neuromodulation; stroke recovery

Indexed keywords

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

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONVALESCENCE; EXCITABILITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; REVIEW; STROKE PATIENT; SUBCORTEX; ANIMAL; BRAIN; GENETICS; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HUMANS; MICE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION;

EID: 84949894806     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968315583721     Document Type: Review

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