Context-dependent, neural system-specific neurophysiological concomitants of ageing: Mapping PET correlates during cognitive activation

Brain

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 963-979

  Esposito, Giuseppe ^a   Kirkby, Brenda S ^a   Van Horn, John D ^a   Ellmore, Timothy M ^a   Berman, Karen Faith ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Brain activation; Cognition; Frontal lobe; PET

Indexed keywords

DEXAMPHETAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032919077     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.5.963     Document Type: Article

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