BDNF methylation and maternal brain activity in a violence-related sample

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Moser, Dominik A ^a,b   Paoloni Giacobino, Ariane ^a   Stenz, Ludwig ^a   Adouan, Wafae ^a   Manini, Aurelia ^a   Suardi, Francesca ^a   Cordero, Maria I ^c   Vital, Marylene ^a   Rossignol, Ana Sancho ^a   Rusconi Serpa, Sandra ^a   Ansermet, Francois ^a   Dayer, Alexandre G ^c   Schechter, Daniel S ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BDNF PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BDNF GENE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA METHYLATION; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EXON; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NERVE CELL; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROMOTER REGION; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VIOLENCE; ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MOTHER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA METHYLATION; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84956658871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143427     Document Type: Article

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