Study on the sternberg paradigm in cirrhotic patients without overt hepatic encephalopathy

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-172

  Amodio, Piero ^a,c   Marchetti, Piergiorgio ^a   Del Piccolo, Franco ^a   Rizzo, Cristiano ^b   Iemmolo, Rosa Maria ^a   Caregaro, Lorenza ^a   Gerunda, Giorgio ^a   Gatta, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Unit of Electronic Research   (Italy)

^c Clinica Medica2   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Number Connection Test; Spectral analysis; Sternberg paradigm; Subclinical hepatic encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMMONIA;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PSYCHOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0031855796     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020665431411     Document Type: Article

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