The effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on suppression of habitual counting during random number generation

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1533-1544

  Jahanshahi, Marjan ^a   Profice, Paolo ^b   Brown, Richard G ^a   Ridding, Mike C ^a   Dirnberger, Georg ^a   Rothwell, John C ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Executive function; Network model; Random number generation; Response suppression; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0031823303     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.8.1533     Document Type: Article

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