• BDNF Val66Met polymorphism interacts with sleep consolidation to predict ability to create new declarative memories 

    Gosselin, Nadia; De Beaumont, Louis; Gagnon, Katia; Baril, Andrée-Ann; Mongrain, Valérie; Blais, Hélène; Montplaisir, Jacques-Yves; Gagnon, Jean-François; Pelleieux, Sandra; Poirier, Judes; Carrier, Julie (Society for Neuroscience, 2016-08)
    It is hypothesized that a fundamental function of sleep is to restore an individual's day-to-day ability to learn and to constantly adapt to a changing environment through brain plasticity. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is among the key ...