Chapter 8 Neural mechanisms of prefrontal cortical function: implications for cognitive rehabilitation

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 157, Issue , 2006, Pages

  D'Esposito, Mark ^c   Chen, Anthony J W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

executive function; fMRI; prefrontal cortex; working memory

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGING; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; CONDITIONING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; COGNITION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 33749667748     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)57008-6     Document Type: Review

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