Attentional disengagement dysfunction following mTBI assessed with the gap saccade task

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 417, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-65

  Drew, Anthony S ^a   Langan, Jeanne ^a   Halterman, Charlene ^a   Osternig, Louis R ^a   Chou, Li Shan ^a   van Donkelaar, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Mild traumatic brain injury; Saccade

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CONCUSSION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN CONCUSSION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34047115219     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.02.038     Document Type: Article

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