Cerebral blood flow velocity changes during meaningful and meaningless gestures - A functional transcranial Doppler study

European Journal of Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 24-29

  Matteis, M ^a   Federico, F ^b   Troisi, E ^a   Pasqualetti, P ^c   Vernieri, F ^c   Caltagirone, C ^a,d   Petrosini, L ^b   Silvestrini, M ^e  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Functional transcranial Doppler; Gestures; Hemispheric specialization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 33645226773     PISSN: 13515101     EISSN: 14681331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2006.01219.x     Document Type: Article

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