Functional anatomy of intrinsic alertness: Evidence for a fronto-parietal-thalamic-brainstem network in the right hemisphere

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 797-805

  Sturm, W ^a   De Simone, A ^a   Krause, B J ^b,c   Specht, K ^a   Hesselmann, V ^a   Radermacher, I ^a   Herzog, H ^b   Tellmann, L ^b   Muller Gartner H W ^c   Willmes, K ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intrinsic alertness; PET functional imaging; RT measures; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 0032987857     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00141-9     Document Type: Article

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