Impaired preconscious auditory processing and cognitive functions in Alzheimer's disease

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1942-1947

  Pekkonen, Eero ^a,b   Jääskeläinen, Iiro P ^a,b   Hietanen, Marja ^a   Huotilainen, Minna ^a,b   Näätänen, Risto ^b   Ilmoniemi, Risto J ^a   Erkinjuntti, Timo ^a,b  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Magnetoencephalography; N100m; Preconscious auditory processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 0344199988     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00153-4     Document Type: Article

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