Reduced prefrontal oxygenation in alzheimer disease during verbal fluency tasks

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-135

  Herrmann, Martin J ^a,b   Langer, Julia B M ^a   Jacob, Christian ^a   Ehlis, Ann Christine ^a   Fallgatter, Andreas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dementia; Near infrared spectroscopy; Prefrontal; Verbal fluency task

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN; DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEOXYGENATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; HOSPITALIZATION; LEARNING; METABOLISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 43349086282     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e3180cc1fbc     Document Type: Article

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