Enhancement of GABA-Related Signalling Is Associated with Increase of Functional Connectivity in Human Cortex

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-39

  Fingelkurts, Andrew A ^a,b   Fingelkurts, Alexander A ^a,b   Kivisaari, Reetta ^b,c   Pekkonen, Eero ^b,c   Ilmoniemi, Risto J ^b,d   Kähkönen, Seppo ^b,c,d  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brain operations; EEG segments; Epilepsy; GABA inhibition; Integration; Lorazepam; Neuronal populations; Structural synchrony; Temporal binding

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LORAZEPAM; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GABA MODULATORS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; LORAZEPAM; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS;

EID: 2342503323     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20014     Document Type: Article

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