Hyperthermia impairs short-term memory and peripheral motor drive transmission

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 586, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 4751-4762

  Racinais, Sebastien ^a   Gaoua, N ^a   Grantham, J ^a  

^a ASPETAR ORTHOPAEDIC AND SPORTS MEDICINE HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; ATTENTION TEST; HEAD; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; MEMORY TEST; MOTOR DRIVE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; REST; TORQUE;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES;

EID: 53249152048     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.157420     Document Type: Article

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