Brain activation pattern during a verbal fluency test in healthy male and female volunteers: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 352, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 191-194

  Weiss, E M ^a,b   Siedentopf, C ^a   Hofer, A ^a   Deisenhammer, E A ^a   Hoptman, M J ^b,c   Kremser, C ^a   Golaszewski, S ^a   Felber, S ^a   Fleischhacker, W W ^a   Delazer, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Performance; Sex differences; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 12144289588     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.08.071     Document Type: Article

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