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Hertenstein E, Kuhn M, Landmann N, Maier JG, Schneider CL, Fehér KD, Frase L, Riemann D, Feige B, Nissen C. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor genetic polymorphism rs6265 and creativity. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0291397. [PMID: 37703265 PMCID: PMC10499242 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0291397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/25/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023] Open
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The protein brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) promotes neural plasticity of the central nervous system and plays an important role for learning and memory. A single nucleotide polymorphism (rs6265) at position 66 in the pro-region of the human BDNF gene, resulting in a substitution of the amino acid valine (val) with methionine (met), leads to attenuated BDNF secretion and has been associated with reduced neurocognitive function. Inhomogeneous results have been found regarding the effect of the BDNF genotype on behavior. We determined the BDNF genotype and performance on the Compound Remote Associate (CRA) task as a common measure of creativity in 76 healthy university students. In our main analyses, we did not find significant differences between met-carriers (n = 30) and non-met carriers (n = 46). In a secondary analysis, we found that met-carriers had a slower solution time (medium effect size) for items of medium difficulty. Our results suggest that met-carriers and non-met-carriers do not generally differ regarding their creativity, but non-met-carriers may have a certain advantage when it comes to moderately difficult problems. The wider literature suggests that both genetic variants come with advantages and disadvantages. Future research needs to sharpen our understanding of the disadvantages and, potentially, advantages met allele carriers may have.
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- Elisabeth Hertenstein
- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center–University of Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center–University of Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center–University of Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Center–University of Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center–University of Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center–University of Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Division of Psychiatric Specialties, Department of Psychiatry, Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), Geneva, Switzerland
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Nissen C, Maier JG, Mainberger F, Feige B, Guo S, Nachtsheim K, Bucsenez U, Normann C, Klöppel S, Riemann D. 0108 Sleep Orchestrates Local Plasticity and Global Stability of Neural Assemblies in the Human Cortex. Sleep 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsy061.107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- C Nissen
- University of Bern, Bern, SWITZERL
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- University of Freiburg, Freiburg, GERMANY
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- University of Freiburg, Freiburg, GERMANY
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- University of Freiburg, Freiburg, GERMANY
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- University of Freiburg, Freiburg, GERMANY
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- University of Freiburg, Freiburg, GERMANY
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Maier JG, Piosczyk H, Holz J, Landmann N, Deschler C, Frase L, Kuhn M, Kloeppel S, Spiegelhalder K, Sterr A, Riemann D, Feige B, Voderholzer U, Nissen C. 0213 BRIEF PERIODS OF NREM SLEEP DO NOT PROMOTE EARLY OFFLINE GAINS BUT SUBSEQUENT ON-TASK PERFORMANCE IN MOTOR SKILL LEARNING. Sleep 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/sleepj/zsx050.212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Nissen C, Maier JG, Kuhn M, Mainberger F, Feige B, Klöppel S, Riemann D. 0226 SLOW WAVE SLEEP ORCHESTRATES INPUT-SPECIFIC STRENGTHENING AND GLOBAL DOWNSCALING OF SYNAPSES IN THE HUMAN CORTEX. Sleep 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/sleepj/zsx050.225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Landmann N, Kuhn M, Maier JG, Feige B, Spiegelhalder K, Riemann D, Nissen C. Sleep Strengthens but does Not Reorganize Memory Traces in a Verbal Creativity Task. Sleep 2016; 39:705-13. [PMID: 26518596 DOI: 10.5665/sleep.5556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2015] [Accepted: 10/15/2015] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVES Sleep after learning promotes the quantitative strengthening of new memories. Less is known about the impact of sleep on the qualitative reorganization of memory content. This study tested the hypothesis that sleep facilitates both memory strengthening and reorganization as indexed by a verbal creativity task. METHODS Sixty healthy university students (30 female, 30 male, 20-30 years) were investigated in a randomized, controlled parallel-group study with three experimental groups (sleep, sleep deprivation, daytime wakefulness). At baseline, 60 items of the Compound Remote Associate (CRA) task were presented. At retest after the experimental conditions, the same items were presented again together with 20 new control items to disentangle off-line incubation from online performance effects. RESULTS Sleep significantly strengthened formerly encoded memories in comparison to both wake conditions (improvement in speed of correctly resolved items). Offline reorganization was not enhanced following sleep, but was enhanced following sleep-deprivation in comparison to sleep and daytime wakefulness (solution time of previously incubated, newly solved items). Online performance did not differ between the groups (solution time of new control items). CONCLUSIONS The results support the notion that sleep promotes the strengthening, but not the reorganization, of newly encoded memory traces in a verbal creativity task. Future studies are needed to further determine the impact of sleep on different types of memory reorganization, such as associative thinking, creativity and emotional memory processing, and potential clinical translations, such as the augmentation of psychotherapy through sleep interventions.
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- Nina Landmann
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
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Bradley EW, Zook BC, Casarett GW, Bondelid RO, Maier JG, Rogers CC. Effects of fast neutrons on rabbits-i. Comparison of pathologic effects of fractionated neutron and photon exposures of the head. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1977; 2:1133-9. [PMID: 413812 DOI: 10.1016/0360-3016(77)90120-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Maier JG, Lee SN. Radiation therapy for nonseminomatous germ cell testicular cancer in adults. Urol Clin North Am 1977; 4:477-93. [PMID: 345580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Patients with Stage I or II malignant testis germ cell tumors underwent a randomized prospective study at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., from 1968 to 1973. Pure cell lines of seminoma or choriocarcinoma were excluded. Forty patients had inguinal orchiectomy followed by irradiation to the inguinal, iliac, lumbar para-aortic, mediastinal and supraclavicular lymph nodes. Thirty-four patients (85%) in this group are alive and free of tumor a minimum of 3 years. Fifty-one patients received pre- and postoperative irradiation to primary lymphatic pathways in association with bilateral retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy as well as elective irradiation to the mediastinum and supraclavicular regions. Forty-six patients (90%) in this second group are alive and free of tumor a minimum of three years. Both treatment methods represent marked improvement in cure rates compared to lymphadenectomy and postoperative irradiation utilized prior to 1968, but no statistically significant difference from each other.
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Thigpen JT, Morrison FS, Smith DL, Maier JG. Diagnostic considerations in CNS leukemia. South Med J 1976; 69:76-8. [PMID: 1061280 DOI: 10.1097/00007611-197601000-00024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Fazekas JT, Maier JG. Irradiation of ovarian carcinomas: a prospective comparison of the open-field and moving-strip techniques. Am J Roentgenol Radium Ther Nucl Med 1974; 120:118-23. [PMID: 4810287 DOI: 10.2214/ajr.120.1.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Maier JG, Schamber DT. The role of lymphangiography in the diagnosis and treatment of malignant testicular tumors. Am J Roentgenol Radium Ther Nucl Med 1972; 114:482-91. [PMID: 5062356 DOI: 10.2214/ajr.114.3.482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Maier JG, Van Buskirk K. Treatment of testicular germ cell malignancies. JAMA 1970; 213:97-8 passim. [PMID: 5467979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Maier JG, Van Buskirk KE, Sulak MH, Perry RH, Schamber DT. An evaluation of lymphadenectomy in the treatment of malignant testicular germ cell neoplasms. J Urol 1969; 101:356-9. [PMID: 5812775 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5347(17)62343-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Boyer CW, Brickner TJ, Perry RH, Maier JG. Interstitial radiation in the management of malignant disease of the facial structures. Am J Roentgenol Radium Ther Nucl Med 1969; 105:14-9. [PMID: 5251359 DOI: 10.2214/ajr.105.1.14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Maier JG, Sulak MH, Mittemeyer BT. Seminoma of the testis: analysis of treatment success and failure. Am J Roentgenol Radium Ther Nucl Med 1968; 102:596-602. [PMID: 5639576 DOI: 10.2214/ajr.102.3.596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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