The functional anatomy of divided attention in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Brain

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1418-1427

  Dannhauser, Thomas M ^a,b   Walker, Zuzana ^b,d,e   Stevens, Tim ^d   Lee, Lean ^d   Seal, Marc ^a   Shergill, Sukhwinder S ^a,c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d North Essex Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^e St Margaret's Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amnestic mild cognitive impairment; Divided attention; Functional MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 20444441500     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh413     Document Type: Article

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