The Neuropsychology of the Prefrontal Cortex

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 636-642

  Rezai, Karim ^a   Andreasen, Nancy C ^b   Alliger, Randy ^c   Cohen, Gregg ^c   O'leary, Daniel S ^c   Swayze, Victor ^c  

^a Departments of Radiology   (United States)

^b Psychiatry Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0027175078     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1993.00540060066020     Document Type: Article

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