Gender differences in gating of the auditory evoked potential in normal subjects

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-58

  Hetrick, William P ^a,b,c   Sandman, Curt A ^a   Bunney Jr , William E ^a   Jin, Yi ^a   Potkin, Steven G ^a   White, Margaret H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Research 5A   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory gating; Event related potentials; Gender; P50

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION KINETICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030042615     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(95)00067-4     Document Type: Article

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