Enhancing the sensitivity of a sustained attention task to frontal damage: Convergent clinical and functional imaging evidence

Neurocase

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 340-349

  Manly, Tom ^a   Owen, Adrian M ^b,c   McAvinue, Laura ^d   Datta, Avijit ^a   Lewis, Geraint H ^a   Scott, Sophie K ^e   Rorden, Chris ^b   Pickard, John ^c   Robertson, Ian H ^b,d  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Frontal cortex; PET; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0043092558     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/neur.9.4.340.15553     Document Type: Article

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