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BDNFval66met affects neural activation pattern during fear conditioning and 24 h delayed fear recall.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience - 1 May 2015
Lonsdorf Tina B, Golkar Armita, Lindström Kara M, Haaker Jan, Öhman Arne, Schalling Martin, Ingvar Martin
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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), the most abundant neutrophin in the mammalian central nervous system, is critically involved in synaptic plasticity. In both rodents and humans, BDNF has been implicated in hippocampus- and amygdala-dependent learning and memory and has more recently been linked to fear extinction processes. Fifty-nine healthy participants, genotyped for the functional BDNFval66met...
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