BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism Influences Visuomotor Associative Learning and the Sensitivity to Action Observation

Motor representations in the human mirror neuron system are tuned to respond to specific observed actions. This ability is widely believed to be influenced by genetic factors, but no study has reported a genetic variant affecting this system so far. One possibility is that genetic variants might int...

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Main Authors: Taschereau-Dumouchel, Vincent, Hétu, Sébastien, Michon, Pierre-Emmanuel, Vachon-Presseau, Etienne, Massicotte, Elsa, De Beaumont, Louis, Fecteau, Shirley, Poirier, Judes, Mercier, Catherine, Chagnon, Yvon C., Jackson, Philip L.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5050503/