Frontal lobe lesions and electrodermal activity: Effects of significance

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1227-1241

  Zahn, Theodore P ^a   Grafman, Jordan ^b   Tranel, Daniel ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c Department of Neurology   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Brain damage; Emotion; Orienting response; Skin conductance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORIENTING REFLEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SOUND;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURY, CHRONIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORIENTATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REST;

EID: 0032875677     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00020-2     Document Type: Article

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