Lack of standard N2 in elderly participants indicates inhibitory processing deficit

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1933-1937

  Bertoli, Sibylle ^a   Probst, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory evoked potentials; Inhibition; N2

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION;

EID: 27844529551     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000187630.45633.0a     Document Type: Article

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