Receptor test (pupillary dilatation after application of 0.01% tropicamide solution) and determination of central nervous activation (Fourier analysis of pupillary oscillations) in patients with Alzheimer's disease

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 40-46

  Grunberger J ^a   Linzmayer, L ^a   Walter, H ^a   Rainer, M ^b   Masching, A ^b   Pezawas, L ^a   Saletu Zyhlarz, G ^a   Stohr H ^a   Grunberger M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Department of Psychiatry SMZ Ost ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Central nervous activation; Fourier analysis of pupillary oscillations; Tropicamide

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; TROPICAMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYDRIATICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PUPIL; TROPICAMIDE;

EID: 0345643447     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000026595     Document Type: Article

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